Urbanization of Rural Dialect Speakers - A Sociolinguistic Study in Brazil

Klappentext This book investigates! from a linguistic point of view! how rural migrants adjust to an urban environment. Zusammenfassung This book investigates! from a linguistic point of view! how rural migrants adjust to an urban environment. The focus of Dr Bortoni-Ricardo's study is speakers of Caipira! a dialect of Brazilian Portuguese. The volume examines in careful detail the historical and synchronic sociolinguistic background of the migrants and the changes that have taken place in their linguistic repertoire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The sociolinguistic situation in Brazil; 3. The Caipira dialect; 4. Network analysis: a dynamic model to approach language change; 5. Network patterns and dialect diffuseness; 6. Collecting data in Brazlandia; 7. The models and methods; 8. The quantitative analysis of the linguistic data; 9. Cross-cultural communication problems; 10. Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stella Maris Bortoni-Ricardo
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103855
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10385-5
• Pagine: 276
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Corsi per adulti / università popolare > Materiali per università popolare / materiali per corsi di lingua; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Brazil, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics