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- Karlander, David, 1987-
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Authentic Language : Övdalsk, metapragmatic exchange and the margins of Sweden’s linguistic market
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This compilation thesis engages with practices that in some way place stakes in the social existence of Övdalsk (also älvdalska, Elfdalian, Övdalian), a marginal form of Scandinavian used mainly in Sweden’s Älvdalen municipality. The practices at hand range from early 20th century descriptive dialectology and contemporary lay-linguistics to language advocacy and language political debate. The four studies focus on the logic by which such practices operate, on the historically produced visions that they bring into play, as well as on the symbolic effects that they have produced. Study I provides a zoomed-out account of the ordering of Övdalsk in Sweden’s linguistic market. Focusing on a relatively recent debate over the institutional regimentation of Övdalsk, it analyses the forms of agreement upon which the exchange in question has come to rest. The contention has mainly developed over the classification of Övdalsk, percolating in the question of whether Övdalsk ‘is’ a ‘language’ or a ‘dialect’. Analysing this debate, the study takes interest in the relationship between state power and metapragmatic exchange. Study II deals with the history of linguistic thought and research on Övdalsk. It analyses the genesis of some durable visions of the relationship between Övdalsk and linguistic authenticity, focusing on the research practice of the Swedish dialectologist Lars Levander (1883–1950), whose work on Övdalsk commands representative authority to this day. By engaging with Levander’s techniques of scholarly objectivation, as well as with their language theoretical fundaments, the study seeks to create some perspectives on, and distance to, the canonical representations of Övdalsk that have precipitated from Levander’s research. Study III looks into the reuse and reordering of such representations. It provides an ethnographic account of a metapragmatically saturated exchange over Övdalsk grammar, in which descriptivist artefacts play an important part. Through an analysis of texts, in situ interaction, and interviews, the study seeks to grasp the ways in which textual renditions of grammar interrelate with practically sustained, socially recognized models of language and language use (i.e. registers). Study IV tracks the ways in which such visions of authenticity have been drawn into institutionally and politically invested metapragmatic exchanges. It looks into a process of naming of roads in Älvdalen, in which ideas about the contrast between Swedish and Övdalsk played a central part. In all studies, various visions of Övdalsk authenticity and authentic Övdalsk constitute a central theme. The thesis maintains that such visions must be understood in relation to the practices in which they hold currency. Following Silverstein, this epistemological stance entails an engagement with the dialectic between historical formations and situated exchange. Through this analytical orientation, the studies seek to account for the visions of authenticity that have been at the forefront of various symbolic struggles over Övdalsk. Thus, in addition to their respective analytical accounts, the separate studies seek to add shifting temporal horizons to the superordinate heuristic, combining a deep historical backdrop with accounts of protracted institutional processes and analyses of situated linguistic interaction. Ultimately, this mode of analysis provides an in-depth understanding of the object of inquiry.
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- Riad, Tomas, 1959-
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Retroflektering
- 2010
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Ingår i: Bo 65. - Göteborg : Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning. - 9789197474788 ; , s. 214-227
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Falk, Cecilia, et al.
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Introduction
- 2003
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Linguistics. - 0332-5865. ; 26:2, s. 127-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Galián Barrueco, Carmen, et al.
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Studiemedvetenhet och måluppfyllelse
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studiemedvetenhet handlar bland annat om vilken typ av färdigheter och förmågor som värdesätts i det svenska skolsystemet, om vilka rättigheter och skyldigheter man har som elev har vad gäller ansvar, delaktighet med mera. Studiemedvetenhet handlar också om att kunna reflektera över sitt eget lärande, om att få en klarare uppfattning om hur den egna arbetsinsatsen är relaterad till studieresultaten, om lärandestrategier och studieteknik, och om att självständigt kunna driva sitt lärande framåt. Intensivsvenskas särskilda satsning på en ökad studiemedvetenhet hos eleverna är sprungen ur konkreta utmaningar som lärarna har identifierat. Satsningen har skett dels genom de strukturella insatserna vad gäller ämnesplaneringar, moduler och schema, dels genom riktade insatser i form av en studiekalender och ett antal aktiviteter kopplade till den. Utvärderingar med elever och lärare visar till exempel att studiekalendern var elevernas viktigaste verktyg för att arbeta med studieteknik och att lärarna upplevde att studiekalendern hade gjort undervisningen tydligare, mer systematisk och strukturerad. Om detta och om utgångspunkterna för satsningen rapporteras i denna skrift.
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- Gussenhoven, Carlos, et al.
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The Sequence Recall Task and Lexicality of Tone : Exploring Tone “Deafness”
- 2022
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-1078. ; 13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many perception and processing effects of the lexical status of tone have been found in behavioral, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific research, often pitting varieties of tonal Chinese against non-tonal Germanic languages. While the linguistic and cognitive evidence for lexical tone is therefore beyond dispute, the word prosodic systems of many languages continue to escape the categorizations of typologists. One controversy concerns the existence of a typological class of “pitch accent languages,” another the underlying phonological nature of surface tone contrasts, which in some cases have been claimed to be metrical rather than tonal. We address the question whether the Sequence Recall Task (SRT), which has been shown to discriminate between languages with and without word stress, can distinguish languages with and without lexical tone. Using participants from non-tonal Indonesian, semi-tonal Swedish, and two varieties of tonal Mandarin, we ran SRTs with monosyllabic tonal contrasts to test the hypothesis that high performance in a tonal SRT indicates the lexical status of tone. An additional question concerned the extent to which accuracy scores depended on phonological and phonetic properties of a language’s tone system, like its complexity, the existence of an experimental contrast in a language’s phonology, and the phonetic salience of a contrast. The results suggest that a tonal SRT is not likely to discriminate between tonal and non-tonal languages within a typologically varied group, because of the effects of specific properties of their tone systems. Future research should therefore address the first hypothesis with participants from otherwise similar tonal and non-tonal varieties of the same language, where results from a tonal SRT may make a useful contribution to the typological debate on word prosody.
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- Hualde, José Ignacio, et al.
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Interaction between word accent and intonational boundaries in Latvian
- 2018
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Ingår i: TAL2018, Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages. ; , s. 27-31
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Latvian, primary stressed long syllables of content words bear either a level or a falling pitch contour, due to a lexical tonal accent contrast. In this paper we examine the interaction between word accents and intonational boundary tones in Latvian. We assume that intonational contours result from the combination of word-level and utterance-level tones and consider how the word accents are realized in utterances with different pragmatic values, which are in part expressed by choice of boundary tone (L%, H%, HL%). The main result of our investigation is that the existence of a lexical tonal contrast in Latvian introduces some incompatibilities between accentual melodies and intonational boundary tones, which are resolved in different ways. Tentatively, we conclude that one resolution is to alter the tonal values of the word accents, in some instances leading to the positional neutralization of the contrast. Another strategy is assimilation between boundary tone and word accent. Which tone assimilates to which is left as an open question here.
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- Hualde, José I., et al.
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Word accent and intonation in Baltic
- 2014
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Ingår i: Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody. ; , s. 668-672
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine the realization of word accent contrasts in Standard Latvian and East Aukštaitian Lithuanian across intonational contexts. In our Latvian data the contrast is manifested as level vs. falling pitch in most contexts, in addition to a durational difference. In Aukštaitian Lithuanian, instead, differences in vowel quality and duration cue the lexical contrast in the nuclei that we examine. While Latvian retains a tonal contrast, in Aukštaitian Lithuanian it has been replaced with a combined segmental/quantitative contrast, where the so-called circumflex tone corresponds to relatively shorter duration and, in the case of diphthongs, centralized quality in the first half. We discuss the implications of these findings for further typological work.
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- Lim Falk, Maria, 1974-, et al.
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Ordförråd och skolspråk
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ordförrådets storlek har ett starkt samband med läsförmåga och framgång i skolan. Projektet har därför satsat särskilt på att strukturera och systematisera elevernas möjligheter att tillägna sig ett relevant ordförråd relaterat till skolans alla ämnen. Dokumentet Ordförråd och skolspråk beskriver utgångspunkterna och ger exempel på planering och metoder för ordarbetet. Där rapporteras också en utvärdering av hur elever och lärare upplever satsningen.
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