Abstract
This study tries to investigate the correlation between sociolinguistic parameters such as sex, age, and social class and the use of metathesis in Azeri. There have been few studies from a sociolinguistic perspective on the use of metathesis. Through studying the stigmatized forms of speech in Azeri, the present study indicates that a significant relationship exists between extralinguistic variables and metathesis as a phonological process. The subjects of the study were Azeri speakers living in different districts of Tabriz categorized by three socioeconomically different groups. The statistical analyses of data indicate that there is an intimate and reciprocal relationship between linguistic behavior and social structure.
Highlights
The sociolinguistic literature is rich in the studies that seek to relate linguistic data to social characteristics of language users (Chaika, 1990; Guy, 1988; Holms, 1992; Hudson, 1990; Keshavarz, 2000; Labov, 1972; Llamas, Mullany and Stockwell, 2007; Trudgill, 1983a; Wardhaugh, 1993)
Data collection and fieldwork play an important role in the study of sociolinguistic variation since its advocates argue both that it is the only way to accurately gain a picture of a person's language use (Labov 1996) on the inadequacy of intuition as a source of information on language structure and that the most systematic grammar of a dialect resides in the vernacular language of the speech community (Labov 1972)
Since no research has, to date, been carried out on the relationship between nonlinguistic parameters and the use of metathesis, an experiment was conducted to investigate whether extralinguistic factors such as age, sex, and social class had any impact on the use of metathesis in Azeri
Summary
The sociolinguistic literature is rich in the studies that seek to relate linguistic data to social characteristics of language users (Chaika, 1990; Guy, 1988; Holms, 1992; Hudson, 1990; Keshavarz, 2000; Labov, 1972; Llamas, Mullany and Stockwell, 2007; Trudgill, 1983a; Wardhaugh, 1993). Social and communicative factors play an important role in shaping language sound structure, as work in the field of sociolinguistics has made abundantly clear (Labov 1980). Data collection and fieldwork play an important role in the study of sociolinguistic variation since its advocates argue both that it is the only way to accurately gain a picture of a person's language use (Labov 1996) on the inadequacy of intuition as a source of information on language structure and that the most systematic grammar of a dialect resides in the vernacular language of the speech community (Labov 1972). Students of sociolinguistic variation can gain valuable insight into the subject by conducting their own research: through rapid anonymous surveys (short surveys investigating one linguistic feature from many people in a short space of time) (Labov 1972) and subsequently through tape-recorded data collection and analysis in a relevant community. (Milroy, 1987; Milroy and Gordon, 2003) provide useful introductions to fieldwork methodology for sociolinguistic variation
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