De-isolation and identity in Newfoundland
This thesis investigates two linguistic variables prone to change in the English language, stative possession and deontic modality. By investigating the change in progress in two Newfoundland communities, this thesis will explore the relationship between language and identity. Newfoundland has under...
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ftdatacite:10.48336/1vc2-r742 2023-05-15T17:17:18+02:00 De-isolation and identity in Newfoundland Muhic, Ismar 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/1vc2-r742 https://research.library.mun.ca/15005/ unknown Memorial University of Newfoundland article-journal ScholarlyArticle Text 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48336/1vc2-r742 2022-04-01T13:10:49Z This thesis investigates two linguistic variables prone to change in the English language, stative possession and deontic modality. By investigating the change in progress in two Newfoundland communities, this thesis will explore the relationship between language and identity. Newfoundland has undergone a deisolation process over the course of the past century and has seen great societal changes with a lot of money and power from the “outside” having played a large role in this transformation. This thesis will investigate how this societal change might have attested itself in language. The Uniformitarian Principle assumes that the same processes that operate now have operated in the past, but it would be foolish to assume that this principle extends to a social factor such as prestige. This thesis will investigate what counts as prestigious in Newfoundland and how this is not necessarily what we would assume would be prestigious, i.e. the high linguistic variant. Text Newfoundland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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This thesis investigates two linguistic variables prone to change in the English language, stative possession and deontic modality. By investigating the change in progress in two Newfoundland communities, this thesis will explore the relationship between language and identity. Newfoundland has undergone a deisolation process over the course of the past century and has seen great societal changes with a lot of money and power from the “outside” having played a large role in this transformation. This thesis will investigate how this societal change might have attested itself in language. The Uniformitarian Principle assumes that the same processes that operate now have operated in the past, but it would be foolish to assume that this principle extends to a social factor such as prestige. This thesis will investigate what counts as prestigious in Newfoundland and how this is not necessarily what we would assume would be prestigious, i.e. the high linguistic variant. |
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