Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This article focuses on how students in two vocational upper secondary school programs talk about and speak in dialects in a geographical area where the dialect has long had a high cultural and social status. Two focus group discussions are analyzed to investigate both which perceptions of – and attitudes toward – dialects that are expressed and which dialectal features that the participants themselves actualize when in the focus group discussions. Based on a content analysis and a dialectal linguistic analysis, the article shows that the participants express definite and clear ideas and perceptions about dialects and dialectal language use, that the majority of them consider the dialect as their own and that they are proud of it. The article also shows that the students tend to position themselves by referring to their own variety of the dialect and to perceptions of ‘typical dialect speakers’. The results also show how the students use a large number of dialectal features during the two conversations.
Source: Nordlyd
DOI: 10.7557/12.7039
Author: Denny Jansson
Institutions: Örebro University, Karlstad University
Language: Swedish
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4390060952