This thesis is about certain varieties of isiXhosa and their apparent influence on English and vice versa. IsiXhosa is a language mainly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of the Republic of South Africa. The study concentrates on certain varieties of isiXhosa that are spoken in the Eastern Cape Province. These varieties are isiBhaca, isiHlubi, isiMpondo, isiThembu and isiGcaleka. IsiGcaleka happens to be the standard variety. A map is provided to illustrate where these varieties are spoken. The study looks at the learners’ texts which are written in isiXhosa and English. The learners who wrote these texts are in Grades 8 and 9 from selected schools in the areas of Mzimkhulu, Matatiele, Mbizana, Ngcobo and Butterworth. It is worth mentioning that Mzimkhulu has since been moved from the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu/Natal. The learners’ texts are analyzed and comments are provided for each analysis. The study also looks at how educators in selected schools relate with their learners when teaching both isiXhosa and English. Observations are made from the relationship between the educators and learners when the learners are taught isiXhosa and English. The study also looks at the debate between standard and non-standard variety. Based on the discussion of both the standard variety and non-standard variety it is the view of the researcher that this notion of “standard” and “non-standard” needs to be challenged on all fronts. This is so because standardization occurs as a result of historical coincidence. The study further looks at the Language and Planning issues in the Republic of South Africa. It is important to note that language is the key to the heart of any nation and therefore whatever that is discussed about language should be sensitive to the people speaking that language.The study concludes with the fact that there is a need to train educators especially those who are going to teach African Languages. There is also a need to undertake studies on learners’ needs so that those who design the school curricula must do so knowing what is relevant to the learners in general. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-05-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:07:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_rma_me_sjrp.pdf: 736092 bytes, checksum: b045dc53ffec1fa69362c507c4f820ee (MD5) / O estudo da variação de modo em estruturas complexas reveste-se de um interesse especial, em virtude de o modo verbal se manifestar morfologicamente, mas o seu uso estar fortemente determinado pelas relações que se manifestam no interior de um complexo oracional. Sendo assim, assumimos como tarefa investigar a manifestação do modo subjuntivo em estruturas complexas utilizando como principal ferramenta a Teoria da Variação Lingüística (LABOV, 1972). A utilização desse aparato como instrumento de investigação de um fenômeno morfossintático, entretanto, requer cuidado, já que há, no interior dos estudos lingüísticos, debates acalorados acerca da pertinência de investigar fenômenos para além do nível fonológico adotando a perspectiva da Teoria da Variação. Para realizarmos essa investigação utilizamos dois corpora: Discurso & Gramática, que contém amostras de fala da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e Iboruna, com amostras de fala da região noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Do conjunto de variáveis lingüísticas postulado, foram selecionadas pelo programa estatístico apenas três variáveis lingüísticas: carga semântica do predicado matriz, grau de certeza epistêmica e tipo de oração subordinada. Desse modo, no cálculo da regra variável, os resultados gerais apontam que o subjuntivo é favorecido: (i) em orações encaixadas em predicados não-factivos volitivos, e (ii) em orações condicionais irreais e potenciais. É desfavorecido em: (i) orações temporais provenientes de relatos de procedimento, (ii) em orações condicionais reais, e (iii) em orações encaixadas em predicados indiferentes de opinião, bicondicionais e emotivos/avaliativos. Como variáveis sociais possivelmente correlacionadas ao fenômeno investigado, compuseram nosso envelope de variação: (i) escolaridade; (ii) sexo; e, (iii) procedência do informante (identificada pelos corpora... / The study of mood variation in complex structures needs a special interest, since verbal mood is marked morphologically, but its use is highly determined through the relations which take place within the complex structure. In this way, we aim at investigating the manifestation of the subjunctive mood in complex structures using as main tool the Theory of Linguistic Variation (LABOV, 1972). The use of this theory as the investigation instrument of a syntactic phenomenon, however, requires some care, since there are, in the linguistic studies, vehement debates about the relevance of studying phenomena outside the phonological level adopting the Variation Theory perspective. In order to carry out this research, we used two corpora: Discurso & Gramática, which contains a sample of spoken language from Rio de Janeiro city, and Iboruna, with samples of spoken language from the northeast region of the state of São Paulo. From the group of linguistic variables postulated, only three of them were selected: semantic value of the matrix predicate, level of epistemic certainty and kind of subordinate clause. Thus, in the calculation of the variable rule, the general results show that the subjunctive is favored: (i) in clauses embedded in non-factive volitional predicates, and (ii) in unreal and potential conditional clauses. It is disfavored in: (i) temporal clauses from proceeding reports, (ii) in real conditional clauses, and (iii) in clauses embedded in indifferent of opinion, biconditional and emotive/evaluative predicates. The social variables probably correlated to the investigated phenomenon are: (i) education level; (ii) sex/gender; and, (iii) informant's origin (identified by the corpora used). After the investigation of the social variables, we noted that the variable use of the subjunctive mood is not related to social factors, since the subjunctive behavior manifests in a homogeneous way among the factors of the social variables considered.

Variation in Cuban Spanish Abstract The aim of this thesis is to deal with the topic of variation in Cuban Spanish, with a special emphasis on the Havana variety, one of the most innovative and recognizable within the island's linguistic landscape. The work is divided into three sections: phonetics and phonology, lexis and semantics, morphology and syntax. The cases described are illustrated with entries taken from a lexico- graphical work of personal authorship, or likewise with usage examples mainly taken from the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Spanish (CREA). On the basis of the analysis of the collected data, this paper examines the state of variability and balance inherent to the system, in order to deepen in the understanding of the mechanisms that shape this language variety. Keywords: Spanish language, Cuban Spanish, variation, dictionary of Cuban Spanish Variación lingüística en el español de Cuba Resumen El objetivo de la presente tesis es abordar el tema de la variación en el español hablado en Cuba, con especial énfasis en la modalidad de La Habana, una de las más innovadoras y representa- tivas del panorama lingüístico insular. El trabajo se halla dividido en tres grandes bloques: fonética y fonología, léxico y semántica, morfología y sintaxis. Los casos descritos se hallan ilustrados con...

The comparative method of variationist sociolinguistics has demonstrated that frequency changes are not reliable determinants of whether grammatical change is taking place. Frequency changes can be the result of extra-linguistic register changes, changes within the underlying grammar, or a combination (Szmrecsanyi, 2011; Tagliamonte, 2002). This work examines two variables known to vary along the written-to-spoken continuum — relative clause pronouns, and the genitive construction — across three registers of English and 100 years, with the goal of furthering our understanding of the relationship between spoken and written language. The s-genitive (i.e. Canada's government vs. the government of Canada) is on the rise in the 20th century (Hinrichs and Szmrecsanyi, 2007; Rosenbach, 2007). Statistical modeling confirms the press register leads this increase — a register change. Examination of internal linguistic constraints over time indicates simultaneous grammatical change, with the s–genitive increasing with certain inanimate subtypes. The WH-forms (who, which) of the relative pronouns have become increasingly restricted to written registers (e.g. Romaine, 1982; Tottie, 1997), leaving that as the variant used most for subject function in vernacular speech (D'Arcy and Tagliamonte 2010). Although who continues to be used for animates, which is shown to have lost any grammatical conditioning that it once had and to be undergoing lexical replacement by that for non-human subject antecedents. Unlike the genitives, though, examination of internal linguistic factors reveals no evidence of grammatical change. The methodology employed here provides a way to tease apart grammatical change from register change, with register-internal change shown to be a motivating factor in change from above. While the vernacular is ''the most systematic data for our analysis of linguistic structure'' (Labov, 1972a:208), it is not necessarily the most innovative, nor is it always the locus of change. With that in mind, this work provides a model of language change that integrates change across speech and writing.

The comparative method of variationist sociolinguistics has demonstrated that frequency changes are not reliable determinants of whether grammatical change is taking place. Frequency changes can be the result of extra-linguistic register changes, changes within the underlying grammar, or a combination (Szmrecsanyi, 2011; Tagliamonte, 2002). This work examines two variables known to vary along the written-to-spoken continuum — relative clause pronouns, and the genitive construction — across three registers of English and 100 years, with the goal of furthering our understanding of the relationship between spoken and written language. The s-genitive (i.e. Canada's government vs. the government of Canada) is on the rise in the 20th century (Hinrichs and Szmrecsanyi, 2007; Rosenbach, 2007). Statistical modeling confirms the press register leads this increase — a register change. Examination of internal linguistic constraints over time indicates simultaneous grammatical change, with the s–genitive increasing with certain inanimate subtypes. The WH-forms (who, which) of the relative pronouns have become increasingly restricted to written registers (e.g. Romaine, 1982; Tottie, 1997), leaving that as the variant used most for subject function in vernacular speech (D'Arcy and Tagliamonte 2010). Although who continues to be used for animates, which is shown to have lost any grammatical conditioning that it once had and to be undergoing lexical replacement by that for non-human subject antecedents. Unlike the genitives, though, examination of internal linguistic factors reveals no evidence of grammatical change. The methodology employed here provides a way to tease apart grammatical change from register change, with register-internal change shown to be a motivating factor in change from above. While the vernacular is ''the most systematic data for our analysis of linguistic structure'' (Labov, 1972a:208), it is not necessarily the most innovative, nor is it always the locus of change. With that in mind, this work provides a model of language change that integrates change across speech and writing.

<p>Abstract</p><p>This study investigates variable past tense marking patterns in an emerging variety of N.C. Hispanic English (n=44) spoken by language learners at three Length of Residency (LOR) groups in three schools in Durham, NC in terms of 1. lexical semantics (Andersen & Shirai 1996, Bayley 1999), 2. frequency (Guy & Erker 2012) 3. discourse structure (Bardovi-Harlig 1998) and 4. verb class and phonological environment (Wolfram 1985, Bayley 1994). Statistical results show significant effects of verb class, lexical aspect, and frequency and interacting effects of verb class and frequency (specifically, suppletives like copula are simultaneously highly frequent and highly phonetically salient). A subsample coded for the discourse factor shows some evidence for the correlation of copula and backgrounding function. A separate analysis of consonant cluster reduction patterns (CCR) demonstrates dialect acquisition of variable constraints (e.g. in terms of N.C. AAVE), namely phonological environment (_C > _V) and morphemic status (monomorpheme > bimorpheme). Pedagogical applications are discussed, including accurately identifying English Language Learners (ELLs) in the context of local/regional accommodation.</p> / Dissertation

<p>From Labov's (1963) finding that the centralization of the /ay/ and /aw/ diphthongs in Martha's Vineyard was emblematic of resistance to local economic and social change, to Mendoza-Denton's (2008) finding that variation in the realization of the /I/ vowel corresponds to gang affiliation among Latina girls in a Northern California high school, identity has been at the center of sociolinguistic analysis and theory for nearly a half century. Despite the centrality of this construct, sociolinguists have rarely stopped to ask about the epistemological, theoretical, and even political implications of identity. This dissertation offers a sustained, interdisciplinary critique of identity, both in linguistics and more generally in contemporary social theory. Through engagements with cultural anthropology, feminist theory, cultural studies, and linguistics, this critique calls attention to identity's epistemological baggage (e.g. collusion with neo-liberalism and Englightenment-era humanism) and theoretical tendencies (e.g. overestimation of agency) and suggests a turn to poststructuralist theory of subject formation. The dissertation is organized around three sections: historiography, theory, and empiricism, as follows.</p><p> The study begins with historiography, tracing the relationship between language and social analysis in a limited archive that includes the work of 19th and 20th Century language scholars, including William Dwight Whitney, Leonard Bloomfield, and Noam Chomsky. Focusing specifically on the relationship between Labov's variationist sociolinguistics and Chomsky's generative program, the historiography analyzes the conditions that led sociolinguistics to a form of social theory scaffolded around identity. </p><p>Poststructuralist theory of subject formation is introduced, with an emphasis on the work of Judith Butler (1990, 1997, 2004) and Michel Foucault (1975, 1976, 1981). A set of terms that animate this framework are introduced, including interpellation, subjectivization, discourse, subjectivity, subject position, subject type, power, and identity.</p><p>Two empirical studies of adolescent language are introduced and the findings are considered in light of the constellation of terms introduced in the prior section. The first is a case study focusing on the speech of one adolescent Mexican American female, "María," whose language use underwent reorganization over a three-year period coinciding with a change in community and school. Segmental and suprasegmental variables were analyzed from data collected from two time periods, T1 and T2. In order to account for modifications in "María's" vocalic production, two vowel variables were selected for acoustic analysis: pre-nasal and non-pre-nasal allophones of /æ/. These variables were selected because of their saliency in both Latino varieties of English (Thomas, Carter, & Coggshall 2006; Fought 2003; Thomas 2001). Midpoint measurements were taken for F1, F2, and F3 for a minimum of 25 tokens of each variable from T1 and T2 using PRAAT phonetics software (Boersma & Weenink 2009). Maria's production of prosodic rhythm was also analyzed using the Pairwise Variability Index (Lowe & Grabe 1995). Changes in F1 and F2 for both vocalic variables were statistically significant--both allophones of /æ/ were lowered and backed from T1 to T2. Conversely, no statistically significant difference was found in prosodic rhythm. These findings are analyzed in the context of the poststructuralist framework already set forth.</p><p>The second study is an intensive ethnographic investigation of a `majority minority' middle school in North Carolina that took place over a five-month period. Detailed ethnographic fieldnotes and unscripted interviews with 50 African American, white, and Latino speakers in social groups identified during observation constitute the data for this study. The analysis focuses on the subjectivizing effects of the institution, particularly the institutional discourses of `choice' and `value,' on the cultural and linguistic practices of its students. Using discourse analytic methods, the analysis shows that talk by students across all major social divisions (grade level, popularity status, gender, and ethnicity) is inflected by institutional discourses. </p><p>A complementary analysis considers the subjectivizing function of language ideology in the middle school context. Analysis of interview and ethnographic field data show three distinct discursive formations about language: `proper talk,' `ghetto talk,' and Spanish.</p> / Dissertation

Orientador: Odette Gertrudes L. A. de Souza Campos / Banca: Gladis Maria Barcelos de Almeida / Banca: Rosane de Andrade Berlinck / Banca: Beatriz Nunes de Oliveira Longo / Banca: Maria Beatriz Gameiro / Resumo: Este trabalho traz o estudo de estruturas que apresentam posposição do sujeito e a influência das mesmas no processo de concordância verbal em gêneros escritos de imprensa do Português Brasileiro (PB), datados entre 2008 e 2010. Para tanto, selecionamos, como corpus desta pesquisa, os gêneros editorial, carta dos leitores, noticiário, coluna e entrevista - seções que apresentam traços mais informais e subjetivos de seus usuários/leitores, dos jornais Folha de São Paulo, Jornal da Tarde, Notícias Já e Diário de São Paulo e das revistas Istoé Gente, Época, Malu Mulher e Aparecida, por estes serem meios de comunicação de imprensa escrita, direcionados a diferentes leitores e com grande circulação nacional. Fizemos um levantamento das ocorrências de sujeitos pospostos nos gêneros escritos de imprensa, analisamos os dados, levantando, ao final, nossas considerações sobre a relação posição do sujeito X concordância verbal. Trazemos a hipótese de que o sujeito posposto na escrita, assim como ocorre na fala, desfavoreça a CV, pois, por não se apresentar em posição de tópico e não condizer com a definição dada pela Gramática Tradicional, "ser de quem se diz alguma coisa", características estas principais para a identificação do sujeito em uma oração, o usuário da língua tende a identificá-lo como sendo outro termo da oração, havendo ou não um termo que ocupe a posição inicial da oração em seu lugar, não realizando, com isto, a concordância entre o verbo e este SN sujeito pós-verbal / Abstract: This research brings a study of structures which present postposition of the subject and the influence of those in the process of verbal agreement in written genres Press of the Brazilian Portuguese (BP), dated between 2008 and 2010. To this end, we selected as a corpus of this research, the gender's editorial, letter from readers, news, column and interview - sections that have more informal and subjective features of their users / readers, from Folha de São Paulo newspaper, Jornal da Tarde, Notícias Já, Diário de São Paulo and from the magazines Istoé Gente, Época, Malu Mulher and Aparecida, for they being means of printing media, towards different readers and with a large national circulation. We did a survey of the occurrences of subjects postponed in written genres of press. We analyzed the data, increasing, at the end, our thoughts about the relation position of the subject X verbal agreement. We bring the hypothesis that the subject postponed in writing, as well as in speech, does not favour the CV, then, for not present itself in a position of topic and does not match the definition given by the Traditional Grammar, "being from whom says to be something" these characteristics are major for the identification of the subject in a sentence. The language user tends to identify it as another word of the sentence, whether there is or not a term that occupies its initial positions in the sentence, without achievement, with that, the agreement between the verb and the post-verbal subject SN / Mestre

Este trabalho busca aproximar a teoria e a prática da tradução para dublagem no Brasil. Para isso, debruçamo-nos sobre as características da tradução audiovisual e sobre o processo de tradução para dublagem. Nossa reflexão se baseia nos princípios postulados pelas teorias da tradução em Hurtado Albir (2001), Nord (2009), Aubert (1993), Amorim (2005), Catford (1980), Bassnnett (2005) e Batalha (2007). Além disso, abordamos a sociologia da linguagem e a sociolinguística com o enfoque na variação linguística, conforme Labov (1972), Monteiro (2000), Bright (1966), Fishman (1972) e Coseriu (1983), e analisamos a variante de fala do personagem Aldo Raine, do filme Bastardos Inglórios, de Quentin Tarantino, para posteriormente investigar como esse aspecto linguístico é tratado na dublagem brasileira. Desta forma, excertos dos diálogos dublados são analisados e as estratégias e modalidades de tradução utilizadas pelo tradutor são discutidas em cada ocorrência na dublagem brasileira do filme. Através da análise, concluímos que não há padronização nas estratégias utilizadas para traduzir as ocorrências de variação linguística e constatamos, ainda, que muitas vezes a tradução para o português brasileiro é adequada, porém traços linguísticos e extralinguísticos relevantes para a compreensão do personagem e da obra são eliminados no áudio dublado. Por esta razão, sugerimos estratégias a fim de padronizar e auxiliar o trabalho do tradutor para dublagem e do dublador. / This paper aims to assemble theory and practice of dubbing translation in Brazil. Therefore, we focus on the characteristics of audiovisual translation and on the translation process for dubbing. Our reflection is based on the principles postulated by translation theories according to Hurtado Albir (2001), Nord (2009), Aubert (1993), Amorim (2005), Catford (1980), Bassnnett (2005) and Batalha (2007). Moreover, we discuss the sociology of language and sociolinguistics, focusing on language variation, according to Labov (1972), Miller (2000), Bright (1966), Fishman (1972) and Coseriu (1983), and we analyze the variant of speech of the character Aldo Raine, in the film Inglourious Basterds, by Quentin Tarantino, to further investigate how this linguistic aspect is treated in Brazilian dubbing. Thus, extracts from the dubbed dialogues are analyzed and the translation strategies and methods used by the translator are discussed in each translation unit presented in the dubbed version of the film. Through the analysis, we conclude that there is no standardization in the strategies used to translate instances of language variation, besides the translation for Brazilian Portuguese is adequate, however linguistic and extralinguistic features which are relevant to the understanding about the character and the film itself are eliminated in the dubbed version. For this reason, we propose strategies to standardize and assist the dubbing translation besides the voice actor.

Orientador: Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves / Banca: Roberto Gomes Camacho / Banca: Maria Marta Pereira Scherre / Resumo: Considerando que inúmeras pesquisas sociolingüísticas realizadas sobre a concordância verbal (CV, daqui em diante) de terceira pessoa do plural (3PP, daqui em diante) evidenciaram a variabilidade do fenômeno, e, considerando ainda que esse fenômeno é constituído por uma variável binária, presença versus ausência de marcas de plural nos verbos, buscamos neste trabalho investigar, por meio do controle de fatores sociais e lingüísticos, a CV na fala da Região Noroeste do Estado de São Paulo, mais precisamente na Região de São José do Rio Preto, usando, como subsídio principal, a Teoria da Variação Lingüística (WEINREICH, LABOV & HERZOG, 1968; LABOV, 1972). O córpus utilizado para a realização de nossa pesquisa provém do Banco de Dados Iboruna, que, constituído pelo Projeto ALIP (Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista), compõe-se de amostras de fala de 152 informantes da região. Para a realização desta pesquisa, foi constituída uma subamostra, composta de 76 entrevistas, estratificadas uniformemente mediante os fatores sociais escolaridade, faixa etária e gênero. Do total de 3.308 ocorrências de 3PP analisadas, 2.314 (70%) apresentaram marcas de plural explícitas nos verbos, evidenciando tratar-se de um caso de variação estável na comunidade investigada, instanciada pela interação entre os seguintes fatores sociais e lingüísticos estatisticamente relevantes: paralelismo formal de nível oracional, escolaridade, paralelismo formal de nível discursivo, saliência fônica, posição do núcleo do SN-sujeito em relação ao verbo, traço semântico do sujeito, idade, gênero e tipo morfológico do sujeito. Palavras-chave: concordância verbal, terceira pessoa do plural, Português brasileiro, variação lingüística. / Abstract: Whereas many sociolinguistics searches conducted on the verbal agreement (VA hereinafter) from the third person plural (3PP, hereinafter) demonstrated the variability of the phenomenon, and, considering that such phenomenon consists of a binary variable, presence versus absence of marks of the plural in the verbs, we sought in this study investigating, through the control of linguistic and social factors, the VA from speech in the Northwest Region of the Sao Paulo State, more precisely in the Region of São Jose do Rio Preto, using as main tool, of the Theory of Linguistics Variation (WEINREICH, LABOV & HERZOG, 1968; LABOV, 1972). The corpus used in the research comes from the Database Iboruna, which was constituted by the Project ALIP - Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista (Sample Linguistics of the Interior Paulista), composed of samples of speech of 152 informants from region. To conduct this research, a sub-sample was formed, consisting of 76 interviews, stratified evenly through the social factors: education level, age and gender. A total of 3,308 occurrences of 3PP analyzed, 2,314 (70%) presented marks of plural explicit in the verbs, showing it is a case of variation stable in the community investigated, instantiated by the interaction between the social and linguistic following factors statistically relevant: formal parallelism of a clause level, education level, formal parallelism of a discourse level, phonic salience, position of the head of the subject-NP in relation to the verb, semantic feature of the subject, age, gender and morphologic type of the subject. Keywords: verbal agreement, third person plural, Brazilian Portuguese, language variation. / Mestre