Lithuanian people do not speak pure Lithuanian language. In all districts there are used different dialects. Traditional dialects are used almost only in suburbs, because contacts between people are rarer. In towns and cities people speak interdialects. Interdialects are the result of interaction between language and dialects. How often people switch codes, depends on lots of reasons. We think that the main are situational, demographic and social factors, exactly the situation of conversation, age and intelligence of communicants.,
In this linguistic work as the primary factor we chose the situation of conversation, which can be unofficial and official. We investigated how interdialect can be stimulated by situation – what kind of influence can one communicants do to the other’s language.
Other very important factor is the age, which we divided into four conditional groups: children, youth, middle – aged and elderly people.
It is established that middle – aged and elderly people use interdialects, which are closest to traditional dialects. But this fact is valid almost only in unofficial situations. Children and youth more often use Lithuanian language forms of the phonetics, morphology, wordbuilding and vocabulary.
The intelligence (education and profession) of communicants can be the reason why people switch codes, especially during official conversations. It is found that people, who studied in university and have university degree use interdialects, which are close... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050627_134659-81384 |
| Date | 27 June 2005 |
| Creators | Undaravičiūtė, Edita |
| Contributors | Pakerys, Antanas, Grumadienė, Laima, Girdenis, Aleksas, Daudaitė, Rasa, Keinys, Stasys, Rinkauskienė, Regina, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050627_134659-81384 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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