Authenticity in language ideology
| Autor: | Natalie Povilonis, Gregory Guy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates. 8:240-273 |
| ISSN: | 2215-1362 2215-1354 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/aplv.22004.pov |
| Popis: | Like many marginalized languages, Chanka Quechua (Peru) lacks community-wide prestige norms associated with standard-language ideology. Formal situations require Spanish, and few speakers are literate in Quechua, so normative speech styles are absent. Speakers’ evaluative judgments do not reference notions of correctness; rather, they value puro ‘pure’ speech and authenticity. This paper explores alternative approaches to accessing sociolinguistic judgments with a study of the variably present uvular phoneme in the past tense /–rqa/ morpheme, as exemplified in the following alternation: (1) ri-r q a-ni ~ ri-ra-ni go-pst-1sg go-pst-1sg ‘I went’ ‘I went’ To contrast speech from sociolinguistic interviews, careful, self-monitored speech is elicited through oral retelling of material presented aurally, rather than in writing. Of 38 participants, rural speakers tend to have higher rates of /q/ than urbanites and reflect idealized puro Quechua. We argue that authenticity guides variation, in place of standard language ideology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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