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A Sociolinguistic Survey of Friulian as a ‘Minor Language’

A Sociolinguistic Survey of Friulian as a ‘Minor Language’ GIUSEPPE FRANCESCATO 1. In the traditional linguistic perspective, and more recently - through 4 structuralist as well as through a generative-transformational prism language was .usually seen as a sort of 'monolithic' object. Modern sociolinguistic approaches, on the contrary, underline a different perspective, showing that 'many elements of linguistic structure are involved in systematic variation which reflects both temporal change and extra-linguistic social processes'.1 This relatively new viewpoint has been illustrated by a number of authors and reappears in many statements trying to catch those essential features which set apart sociolinguistics as a particular manner of looking at language. According to one of these statements, some sort of mutual relation holds between the structure of language and the structure of society.2 In fact, a better understanding of the role played by language in the life of society is of primary importance for the study of language. Here, however, 'language' cannot be interpreted in the restricted sense of'monolithic' language, but in the more complex sense of 'more than one linguistic layer' or 'level', operating - or being operated - in various situations in the same society. The members of a linguistic community, taken as speakers of language at large, are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences de Gruyter

A Sociolinguistic Survey of Friulian as a ‘Minor Language’

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-3949
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1613-396X
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10.1515/ling.1976.14.177.97
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GIUSEPPE FRANCESCATO 1. In the traditional linguistic perspective, and more recently - through 4 structuralist as well as through a generative-transformational prism language was .usually seen as a sort of 'monolithic' object. Modern sociolinguistic approaches, on the contrary, underline a different perspective, showing that 'many elements of linguistic structure are involved in systematic variation which reflects both temporal change and extra-linguistic social processes'.1 This relatively new viewpoint has been illustrated by a number of authors and reappears in many statements trying to catch those essential features which set apart sociolinguistics as a particular manner of looking at language. According to one of these statements, some sort of mutual relation holds between the structure of language and the structure of society.2 In fact, a better understanding of the role played by language in the life of society is of primary importance for the study of language. Here, however, 'language' cannot be interpreted in the restricted sense of'monolithic' language, but in the more complex sense of 'more than one linguistic layer' or 'level', operating - or being operated - in various situations in the same society. The members of a linguistic community, taken as speakers of language at large, are

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Linguistics - An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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