Dialect use as interaction strategy
Barbara Soukup
Broschiertes Buch

Dialect use as interaction strategy

A sociolinguistic study of contextualization, speech perception, and language attitudes in Austria

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In the course of conversations held in a standard language, shifting into non-standard dialect can turn out to be a very powerful rhetorical tool. For the first time, this book brings the methodology of American interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis, language attitude study, and variationist sociolinguistics to data drawn from Austrian TV discussions, in order to investigate and illuminate the mechanisms behind such decidedly strategic dialect use.Disparaging an opponent, talking in irony, expressing contempt for an opposing position - all these are conversational moves for which di...