Variation in Language: Code switching in Czech as a challenge for sociolinguistics: 39 (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027215480 ISBN 13: 9789027215482

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1992

Synopsis

Czech, a clear case of a language having a Standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in 5 chapters and opens with a general discussion of language varieties. 'The Two Central Language Formations in Czech' gives a summary description of the Czech central vernacular. This is followed by a chapter on 'The Origin and Opposition of Standard and Common Czech' and in the next chapter code switching between Standard and Common Czech is discussed. The concluding chapter presents starting points for a theoretical description of a national language with intralingual variation and a preliminary formulation of perspectives on the stratification of Czech.

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Synopsis

In sociolinguistic studies, intralingual code-switching has been given less attention than most other areas, and linguists' attitudes towards the use of non-standard varieties still often suffer from fallacies of prescriptivism. Czech, a clear case of a language having a standard and a strong central vernacular with intensive shifting between them, offers many points of general interest to sociolinguists. This volume is divided in five chapters: "Styles, Varieties and Language Formations" presents a general discussion of language varieties, while "The Two Central Language Formations In Czech" gives a summary description of the Czech central vernacular. This is followed by a chapter on "The Origin and Opposition of Standard and Common Czech" and in the next chapter code switching between Standard and Common Czech is discussed. The concluding chapter presents requirements of sociolinguistic inquiry, the starting points for a theoretical description of a national language with intralingual variation and a preliminary formulation of perspectives on the stratification of Czech.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027215480
• ISBN 13: 9789027215482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 381
• Editor: Sgall Petr, Hronek Jirí, Stich Alexandr, Horecký Ján