Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Prosody and Phonology
- Part 2 Inflectional and Derivational Morphology
- Part 3 Syntax
- Part 4 Lexicon
- Part 5 Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches
- 26 Sociolinguistic Variation in Slavic Languages
- 27 False Cognates
- 28 Dialectal Fragmentation
- 29 Language Contacts
- 30 The Slavic Literary Micro-Languages
- 31 Heritage Language Forms
- 32 Scripts
- 33 Orthographies
- Part 6 Experimental and Quantitative Approaches
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
26 - Sociolinguistic Variation in Slavic Languages
from Part 5 - Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1 Prosody and Phonology
- Part 2 Inflectional and Derivational Morphology
- Part 3 Syntax
- Part 4 Lexicon
- Part 5 Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches
- 26 Sociolinguistic Variation in Slavic Languages
- 27 False Cognates
- 28 Dialectal Fragmentation
- 29 Language Contacts
- 30 The Slavic Literary Micro-Languages
- 31 Heritage Language Forms
- 32 Scripts
- 33 Orthographies
- Part 6 Experimental and Quantitative Approaches
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter discusses linguistic variation in Slavic languages by presenting an overview of the relationship between human communication in the society and the corresponding linguistic features. In this chapter we focus on the parameters of variation according to the language user, such as age or dialects, and according to the language use, such as communicative functions or communication styles, e.g. politeness. We cite both qualitative and quantitative methods for studying aspects of sociolinguistic variation. Examples are drawn from large corpora of two Slavic languages, Russian and Serbo-Croatian, with a particular focus on academic writing, news reporting, and reporting personal experience in social media, as well as from dictionaries and field studies.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 559 - 583Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024