Publication details
České, moravské a slezské dialekty v poměnách doby
| Title in English | Bohemian, Moravian, and Silesian Dialects in Transfomation of Time |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Národopisná revue |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | dialect; equalization of dialects; socio-linguistic aspects of dialect; Bohemia and Moravia |
| Description | Historical milestones are not projected immediately to the set of language means typical for a particular dialect, because the dialect is a private manner of speech actively acquired in childhood and passed down in a natural way by generations between which the continuity survives. It is necessary not to look for the causes of dialect transformations in the language itself, but in changed condition under which the dialect as means of communication is used. In our territory, such means are influenced mainly by the industrialization, which causes the migration of inhabitants and forms new communication communities in which a common usual language is created. Such a process was running in Bohemia in the entire 19th century, resulting in a quite stabilized general colloquial Czech; in Moravia and Silesia, however, we can notice it much later and the traditional dialect survived until recently. Unfortunately, because of the lack of older relevant authentic language material, we are not able to show any concrete data about the rate of transformations, and the results of the contemporary development of general manner of speech will be obvious in some tens of years. |
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