After all, how coherent is the speech in the linguistic communities?
- V. 19, N. 2 (2020)
- Submitted: Jun 18, 2020
- Published: Aug 6, 2020
- DOI 10.25189/rabralin.v19i2.1527
Abstract
Based on the works of Labov (2006), Becker (2016), Oushiro (2015, 2019), Mendes (2016; 2019), and Eckert (2008), Gregory Guy promotes in his speech a discussion about dialectal coherence in speech communities. First, Guy seeks to highlight how individual linguistic experience is used to build and perform social identities. Second, he takes as a premise the social and individual heterogeneity from the works of Labov and Becker in order to discuss the notion of dialectal cohesion through the investigations of Guy, Mendes, and Oushiro. Thus, founded on empirical data analysis, the lecturer predicts that globalization increases the contact between languages and the simplification of linguistic complexities provoking a decrease in linguistic coherence.
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