The purpose of this research is to identify and quantify language variation in real time in a community of students in the university college “Giasone del Maino”. We chose this sociolinguistic setting firstly for the heterogeneity of the student population: as students come from different regions of Italy, the college setting provides an optimal situation of language contact between standard Italian and Italian regional varieties. Moreover, the peculiarity of collegial life allows us to consider the student body as one community of practice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet:1992; Wenger:1998), which, in our hypothesis, would accelerate the processes of diachronic variation. Data were collected through interviews aimed at eliciting three distinctive speech styles at different level of control over the speech production: spontaneous speech, through a short self-presentation of the speaker and some general questions; semi-spontaneous speech, through different linguistic tasks; and controlled speech, through the reading of a word list. The whole corpus has been designed to investigate different phonemes related to both vocalism and consonantism of Italian. The word list reading task includes 48 tokens of real words. To study diachronic variation, the data were collected at different points throughout the academic year. A case-study of 6 speakers (3 male and 3 female) of two different linguistic areas (3 from northern Italy and 3 from southern Italy) have been analyzed. Data were collected at the freshmens’ arrival in college and at 11 months after arrival.
Lo scopo di questa ricerca è quello di identificare e quantificare la variazione linguistica in diacronia reale nella comunità studentesca del collegio universitario "Giasone del Maino". Abbiamo scelto questo contesto sociolinguistico in primo luogo per l'eterogeneità della popolazione studentesca: poiché gli studenti provengono da diverse regioni d'Italia, il collegio fornisce una situazione ottimale di contatto linguistico tra varietà di Italiano regionale e Italiano standard. Inoltre, la peculiarità della vita collegiale ci consente di considerare il corpo studentesco come una comunità di pratica (Eckert e McConnell-Ginet: 1992; Wenger: 1998), che, nella nostra ipotesi, accelererebbe i processi di variazione diacronica. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso interviste mirate a elicitare tre stili linguistici distintivi: parlato spontaneo, attraverso una breve auto-presentazione dell'informante e alcune domande generali; parlato semi-spontaneo, attraverso diversi compiti linguistici; e parlato controllato, attraverso la lettura di una lista di parole. L'intero corpus è stato progettato per investigare diversi fonemi relativi sia al vocalismo che al consonantico italiano. La lettura di parole include un elenco di 48 token. Per studiare la variazione diacronica, i dati sono stati raccolti in momenti diversi dell'anno accademico. È stato analizzato il caso di 6 informanti (3 maschi e 3 femmine) di due diverse aree linguistiche (3 dal nord Italia e 3 dal sud Italia). I dati sono stati raccolti all'arrivo delle matricole in università e dopo 11 mesi.
Variabilità delle affricate dentali e del vocalismo nel Collegio universitario Giasone del Maino. Un approccio sociofonetico
NESE, NICHOLAS
2017/2018
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to identify and quantify language variation in real time in a community of students in the university college “Giasone del Maino”. We chose this sociolinguistic setting firstly for the heterogeneity of the student population: as students come from different regions of Italy, the college setting provides an optimal situation of language contact between standard Italian and Italian regional varieties. Moreover, the peculiarity of collegial life allows us to consider the student body as one community of practice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet:1992; Wenger:1998), which, in our hypothesis, would accelerate the processes of diachronic variation. Data were collected through interviews aimed at eliciting three distinctive speech styles at different level of control over the speech production: spontaneous speech, through a short self-presentation of the speaker and some general questions; semi-spontaneous speech, through different linguistic tasks; and controlled speech, through the reading of a word list. The whole corpus has been designed to investigate different phonemes related to both vocalism and consonantism of Italian. The word list reading task includes 48 tokens of real words. To study diachronic variation, the data were collected at different points throughout the academic year. A case-study of 6 speakers (3 male and 3 female) of two different linguistic areas (3 from northern Italy and 3 from southern Italy) have been analyzed. Data were collected at the freshmens’ arrival in college and at 11 months after arrival.È consentito all'utente scaricare e condividere i documenti disponibili a testo pieno in UNITESI UNIPV nel rispetto della licenza Creative Commons del tipo CC BY NC ND.
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14239/6320