Jonathan Morris
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To what extent does the use of Swiss German and attitudes towards this variety suggest that dialect is replacing standard in diglossic Switzerland

A theoretical and empirical study

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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1 , University of Manchester, language: English, abstract: Ferguson's initial definition of diglossia describes the use of 'two language varieties [that] exist side by side throughout the community, each having a definite role to play' (1959, repr. 1972: 232). The relationship between the Swiss dialects (which will be referred to from hereon as SG) and Swiss Standard German (HG) has been characterized as 'medial diglossia', based on the HG for writing and SG for speaking dichotomy (see EDI 1989b: 101). As Ra...