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dc.contributor.editorPalander, Marjatta
dc.contributor.editorRiionheimo, Helka
dc.contributor.editorKoivisto, Vesa
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-03 10:08:44
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:37:06Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:37:06Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1000204
dc.identifierOCN: 1051778170en_US
dc.identifier.issn1235-1938;1235-1946
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29742
dc.description.abstract"This volume considers the linguistic borders between languages and dia­lects, as well as the administrative, cultural and mental borders that reflect or affect linguistic ones; it comprises eight articles examining the mental borders between dialects, dialect continua and areas of mixed dialect, language ideologies, language mixing and contact-induced language change. The book opens with Dennis R. Preston’s review article on per­ceptual dialectology, showing how this field of study provides insights on laymen’s perceptions about dialect boundaries, and how such perceptions explain regional and social variation. Johanna Laakso problematizes the common notion of languages as having clear-cut boundaries and stresses the artificialness and conventionality of linguistic borders. Vesa Koivisto introduces the Border Karelian dialects as an example of language and dialect mixing. Marjatta Palander and Helka Riionheimo’s article examines the mental boundaries between Finnish and Karelian, demonstrated by the informants when recalling their fading memories of a lost mother tongue. Niina Kunnas focuses on how speakers of White Sea Karelian perceive the boundaries between their language and other varieties. Within the framework of language ideology, Tamás Péter Szabó highlights the ways in which linguistic borders are interactionally (co)constructed in the school environment in Hungary and Finland. Anna-Riitta Lindgren and Leena Niiranen present a contact-linguistic study investigating the vocabulary of Kven, a variety lying on the fuzzy boundary of a language and a dialect. Finally, Vesa Jarva and Jenni Mikkonen approach demographically manifested linguistic boundaries by examining the Old Helsinki slang, a mixture of lexical features derived from Finnish and Swedish. Together, the articles paint a picture of a multidimensional, multilingual, variable and ever-changing linguistic reality where diverse borders, boundaries and barriers meet, intertwine and cross each other. As a whole, the articles also seek to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries and present new perspectives on earlier studies.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudia Fennica Linguistica
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguisticsen_US
dc.subject.otherminority languages
dc.subject.otherlanguage ideology
dc.subject.othermultilingualism
dc.subject.otherdialect
dc.subject.otherslang
dc.subject.otherborrowing
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.subject.otherFinnish language
dc.subject.otherKarelia
dc.subject.otherKarelian language
dc.subject.otherKven people
dc.subject.otherLoanword
dc.subject.otherSwedish language
dc.titleOn the Border of Language and Dialect
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/sflin.21
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f
oapen.relation.isbn9789522229168; 9789518580037; 9789518580044
oapen.series.number21
oapen.pages262
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Dialect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect; Finland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland; Finnish language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language; Karelia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia; Karelian language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_language; Kven people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kven_people; Loanword - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword; Swedish language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language
oapen.identifier.ocn1051778170


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