Publication details
Trends of Sociolectal Integration and Disintegration: The Case of the Brno Sociolect.
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | All of this demonstrates that the processes of integration and disintegration of language nei-ther merely concern the higher code of the standardized variety of a language nor are any-thing new. At present we either see their stabilized results or observe their specific manifesta-tions in the areas of culture and language where the effects and the (anticipated) consequences of these processes are relatively clearly visible. Disregarding the norms of the codified cul-tural language, it turns out that the same linguistic facts may operate differently at different periods: both as evidence of integration in the means of expression of a given community and a signal of its social differentiation. The relationship between the two processes changes as a result of the external changes in society. These findings illustrate that linguistic generaliza-tions need not always be universally applicable, especially when confronted with specific lan-guage material. |
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