Language Change and Variation in GibraltarJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2008 - 192 pagine While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between the three principal means of communication: English, Spanish and the code-switching variant Yanito. The study then focuses its attentions on the communicative forms and functions of Gibraltarian English. The closing of the border between Gibraltar and Spain (1969-1982), which effectively isolated the colony, had important social and linguistic repercussions. This volume presents the first full account of the language attitudes and identity of a new generation of Gibraltarians, all of whom were born after the border was re-opened. Adopting a variationist approach, this study analyses the extent to which the language use and phonetic realisations of young Gibraltarians differ from those of previous generations and the factors conditioning language variation and change. |
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Past and present | 15 |
Fieldwork methodology and analysis | 39 |
1 Research sample by sex ageeducational level and school | 40 |
3 Research sample by class and sex | 48 |
Language choice competence and attitude | 55 |
1 Language spoken by informants with grandparents GL in | 60 |
Vowels and diphthongs | 99 |
1 Gibraltarian English GibE vowel summary | 100 |
4 Distribution of LETTER vowel variants | 118 |
Consonants | 133 |
2 Different pronunciations of the word garage in the sample | 139 |
4 Distribution of R by phonetic environment | 153 |
5 Distribution of L in prepausal and preconsonantal | 159 |
Summary and conclusions | 165 |
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