Migration-induced Variation in the Communicative Space

• Main Author: Thomas Krefeld
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2017-07-01
• Series: Gragoatá
• Subjects: Language Variation. Migration. Glossotope. Perception. Variational Linguistics.
• Online Access: http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/920

Migration is one of the fundamental and widespread causes of linguistic contact and variation induced by contact. Although contact-induced linguistic variation is not uncommon, it requires explanation within a model that allows the linguistic data to be contextualized in the communicative space. It requires the localization of language variation from the speaker in his/her historical context (with his/her variety repertoire, his/her communicative routines and the effect of this communicative routines in his/her own repertoire). In this sense, the speaker represents a minimal unit of the communicative space ('glossotope') in which it is inserted. --- Original in English. --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n42a920