Dialect Identity Research Articles

Э.В. Ильенков и Московский логический кружок: материалы полемики

The publication deals with an almost forgotten dispute between two currents of Russian philosophy that emerged on the threshold of the “Thaw”. Its leaders were Evald Ilyenkov and Aleksander Zinoviev, both of whom had just graduated from Moscow State University. The dispute revolved around the methodology of Marx’s Capital and then developed into a discussion of the subject of dialectical logic and the specifics of thought. Ilyenkov’s archive preserved the theses of his speeches and critical notes on the position of Zinoviev and his followers from the Moscow Logical Circle. This material is published below. The accompanying article reconstructs the contexts of the polemic – theoretical, cultural-historical and personal – and weighs the arguments of each side. The inadequacy of labelling Ilyenkov as a “gnoseologist” is demonstrated. The thesis he defends about the dialectical identity of thinking and being invalidates the very distinction between gnoseology and ontology. The Kantian origins of Zinoviev and his teachers, professors at the Moscow State University, in solving the problem of the specificity of thought are revealed. All of them proclaimed the distinction between the “subjective dialectic” in the human mind and the “objective dialectic” of the external world – in opposition to the principle of the identity of thinking and being, which they regarded as the “Hegelian mysticism”. Ilyenkov, on the other hand, pointed out that this identity is fulfilled before our eyes in practice – in the processes of human labour

Impact of Cultural Globalisation on Indian Youth: Facing the Challenges of Dialectical Identity

Modernization and Cultural Globalization both are processes through which Indian society is changing itself towards adapting modern rational values within the sphere of structural and institutional patterns of behavioral norms. While internalizing the values and norms of cultural globalization, Indian youth are facing the challenges of conflict between tradition and modernity which is somehow responsible for creating the crises of dialectical identity among youth. With the learning of values such as equality, freedom, egalitarian and rational approach towards life, individualism, economic progress, and secular belief, Indian youth still follow the traditional behavioral patterns due to structural (Caste system) and institutional (Family, kinship system) characteristics of society. This conflict generates the dialectical consciousness and identity feeling among youth in Indian Society. The objective of this paper is to analyze those factors and assumptions that are responsible for developing the dialectical identity crises in the personality system of Indian youth.

Metalinguistic discourse and dialect performance

Abstract This investigation examines how dialect identity and linguistic ideologies are negotiated and performed through dar +gerund, a northern Andean Spanish construction used to express an attenuated request or favor. Specifically, positive, neutral, and negative sentiments expressed through metalinguistic commentary are analyzed from a corpus of 450 tweets collected on Twitter between 2008- May 2019. This analysis shows how a higher degree of emotional intensity in negative sentiments signals linguistic and cultural discrimination towards this Kichwa-contact induced construction. On the other end, positive sentiments celebrate and defend this feature as an intrinsic part of the Andean Ecuadorian dialect and identity. This negotiation of the linguistic and cultural significance of dar +gerund serves to destabilize dominant negative perceptions and renegotiate the meaning of this NAS feature.

Variation and change in Swiss German agreement morphology: Spatial, social, and attitudinal effects

AbstractThis paper investigates the occurrence of inflected predicative adjectives, an optional yet distinguishing feature of German dialects spoken in southern Switzerland. We provide an in-depth analysis of the patterns of change of this morphosyntactic marker with a particular focus on extralinguistic factors. Historical records from 1950 were compared to contemporary data collected from 192 speakers across 49 localities in 2020–21. Our results corroborate previous reports indicating a substantial, real-time decline in inflected forms. Logistic mixed-effects modeling suggests that the inflection of predicative adjectives occurs more frequently among speakers who report tight social networks, have a strong local dialect identity, and regularly use one or more Romance languages. These findings support the claim that tight social networks and local dialect identity construction may lead to the preservation of conservative grammatical forms. Additionally, the effect of Romance languages highlights the role of transfer phenomena induced by language contact.

Dialect Conflict and Identity Issues in Tlemcen Speech Community

Dialect Conflict and Identity Issues in Tlemcen Speech Community

The Dialectical Identity of Eastern Germans

Germans have now been unified for thirty years, longer than they had been separated by concrete barriers, yet the Wall in their respective heads has persisted. Unequal wages, a lack of investment in structurally weak regions, and ongoing western elite domination continue to fuel Eastern perceptions of second-class citizenship, despite significant shifts in the fates of key social groups who initially saw themselves as the “winners” and losers” of unification. This article considers the dialectical identities of four groups whose collective opportunity structures have been dramatically reconfigured since 1990: eastern intellectuals and dissidents; working women and mothers; eastern youth; and middle-aged men. It argues that the two groups counted among the immediate winners of unification—dissidents and men—have traded places over the last three decades with the two strata counted among unity’s core losers, women and youth. It also testifies to fundamental, albeit rarely noted changes that have taken hold with regard to the identities of western Germans across thirty years of unification.

Distinct patterns of geographic variation for different song components in Daurian Redstarts Phoenicurus auroreus

ABSTRACTCapsule: Components of Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus song have evolved along independent trajectories and show a mix of clinal and dialect patterns of geographic variation.Aims: To investigate multiple structural components of song in Daurian Redstarts Phoenicurus auroreus as they varied among five locations across South Korea. To test whether different components of the same signal can evolve along independent trajectories, or else are constrained to evolve in correlated fashion.Methods: Two distinct song components were investigated: the introductory whistle and the complex syllable. For both segments, we made both qualitative and quantitative comparisons of similarity among individuals both within and among populations.Results: Patterns of geographic variation differed substantially between the two song segment types. Introductory whistles varied widely both within and among individuals, and were distributed across space in a mosaic pattern. Complex syllable parts showed high within-individual similarity and a distinctly clinal pattern of geographic variation, with the exception of a distinct dialect in one population isolated by a high-elevation mountain range.Conclusions: The results suggest that different components of Daurian Redstart songs have evolved along independent trajectories; that specific song components may show a mix of clinal and dialect patterns of geographic variation; and that different song components might simultaneously transmit distinct patterns of information about individual, dialect or species identity.

Tibetan Multi-dialect Speech and Dialect Identity Recognition

Tibetan Multi-dialect Speech and Dialect Identity Recognition

Theology and Philosophy to the World-Historic Mediation in Hegels Philosophy

Theology and Philosophy to the World-Historic Mediation in Hegels Philosophy Ass. Prof. Aleksandar M. Petrovic Abstract Classical argument for the principle of contradiction in the formal logic is himself metaphysically founded in a Aristotle’s concept of `bebaiotate arche`. It was not contradiction nor to the Platos dialectical method of the conceptualization, from the side of the dwelling of the concepts within themselves, with the intention to come in intelligibly entis of the God of justice and truth. Contributing with a principle dialectical identity, as he stay in possibility to be able to give a transition from the level of finite things on the level of concrete speculatively, is the one of the postulates of Hegels Knowledge of Logic. It is necessary to say that it is phenomenological approach to the finite things, in which the knowledge about experience of consciousness as a phenomenology of spirit, enlighted a differentiations inside consciousness herself as a education that consciousness by her alone, and connected with a goal to accept the religious truths in the dwelling to the adherent contentions in conceptualizations and representations of them. It is a sense of the definition of elements of absolute idea in the Kingdom of Father by Hegel, and a consideration of a absolute divorcing with a martyred of the Divine Person of Son in the instituting the differences in the world, and throw allconqueste signature of the human being in the perspective to opening the Kingdom of Spirit in the sphere of three substantial society or conversion of the Wholly Trinity in the spiritual all unity of reality. The speed of the concept of logical contradiction is related with the frustrated sentence The God is daed`, who means power of the new living in the dynamical identity. The concept of dead will be in kargo of partial finality by the formal logical identity, because the God is resurrected, or come on the Heavens by the right of the Father and in the same time bee presently (in the parousia) in the ecclesiastical community apostolically founded, working in the Person of the Holy Spirit also, because He is one substantial with Him. And it is love in her educational energy shape, as a condition of the respect full living of intelligent being. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/ijpt.v3n1a9

'Veneto out of Italy? Dialect, Migration, and Transnational Identity'

In recent years, new efforts have been made to revitalize and promote local dialects in northern Italy. This project of dialect promotion has occurred side by side with new political restrictions on illegal immigrants in Italy, and both projects—dialect revitalization and anti-immigrant legislation—have been led by the influential federalist political party called Lega Nord. This revitalization is part of a larger set of political initiatives launched by two main political parties in Veneto, Liga Veneta, a subdivision of the Lega Nord, and the new, independently born Veneto Stato. Using a variety of discourse data collected in the Veneto region, this article shows how the promotion of Veneto dialect is intimately related to Veneto speakers’ defense against migrants and the Italian state. This link between local linguistic revitalization and anti-immigration efforts is not just a case of ‘regionalization’ within the Italian state, however. On the one hand, Veneto speakers emphasize their regional belonging rather than their national one by promoting dialect over Standard Italian; on the other hand, they construct a transnational identity as Veneti nel mondo (‘Veneto people in the world’)—reaching out especially to Veneto speakers in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and the USA. Through an analysis of style shifting between Veneto dialect and Standard Italian in a corpus of naturally recorded data among Veneto speakers, I investigate how they foster and solidify a Veneto identity through opposition to foreigners and the Italian state, and how they build a Veneto transnational identity that stretches beyond regional and national boundaries.

Samuel Johnson: Standardizer of English, Preserver of Gaelic

Samuel Johnson's hostility towards Scotland and the Scots English dialect of the Lowlanders is well-known. Not so, however, his support for the preservation of Scottish Gaelic. A seeming contradiction, Johnson's position on Gaelic is essential for what it reveals about language, dialect, and national identity in the eighteenth century. Although Johnson believed in preserving all languages, he opposed diversity of dialect within languages. For him, Gaelic was a language of its own, but Scots English was an impure, corrupted dialect of a language.

The "Histoire ancienne" and Dialectical Identity in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César is a historical account of events from Genesis to the Roman Republic. One version of this chronicle (London, British Library, MS Add. 15268), made in the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem during the second half of the thirteenth century, contains illuminations noteworthy for their emendations to pictorial tradition and their calculated use of Byzantine formal elements. A close study of these characteristics shows them to be complementary devices with a common goal: laying claim to a magnificent past and marking the heroic figures and legendary deeds recounted within its pages as emphatically Christian. This emphasis distinguishes the London Histoire ancienne from its counterparts in the West, which take the secular form of romance or epic. It also points to an identity crisis provoked by close contact with the local Muslim population and the recognition that this "enemy" was more similar to than different from its Christian patron. This dialectical relation is explicit within the frontispiece, where a depiction of Creation surrounded by Islamic imagery not only suggests the Eastern context of its manufacture literally (i.e., the Muslims surround the Christians) but also launches the theologically complex and strategic design of the pictorial program that follows. In this light, the value of the London Histoire ancienne lies in its capacity to complicate our understanding of the particular geographic area in which it was made and, by extension, other objects of material culture born of this same environment.

Vowel duration in Mexican heritage English.

Mexican heritage English (MHE) speakers in Chicago comprise a unique population of native English speakers; their speech is often regarded by non‐ethnic (NE) speakers as Spanish‐accented English in spite of the fact that they may have low or no proficiency in Spanish. Vowels were analyzed from recordings of wordlist readings by MHE, NE, and adult Mexican ESL speakers (L2E) from a single Chicago community (N=15F, 10F, and 12F, respectively). The analyses indicate that MHE vowel durations correspond to NE durations for the dimoraic (long) vowels, but correspond to the Spanish‐accented vowels of L2E for the monomoraic (short) vowels. Thus the range of duration between short and long vowels is compressed for MHE vowels, reflecting the NE norm for long vowels, and the Spanish‐influenced minimum for short vowels. Sociophoneticians often rely on vowel formant frequency plots to provide a quantitative measure of dialect identity that may correlate with a variety of regional and social factors. The current study provides evidence that vowel duration is a phonological contrast in the MHE dialect that reflects the influence of language contact on vowel properties that are not captured by vowel plots alone.

Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence1

Regardless of the variability and complexity in the linguistic environment around them, children begin constructing stable linguistic identities at a young age. Prior research has effectively modeled child dialect acquisition in terms of parent influence versus peer influence, and peer influence has often been shown to be the key determiner. The present study takes the next step by showing that the parent/peer group contrast in prior studies should be viewed as a special case of a more general pattern: children learn and construct dialect identity as a process of group distinction. Using data the author collected among exogamous Sui clans in rural southwest China, the present study shows how diverse cultures can lend new perspectives to the issue of parent/peer influence; Sui children's linguistic worlds are not divided along parent/peer lines but rather along clan lines, yet a similar process of group distinction occurs.

Segregation of information in a complex acoustic signal: individual and dialect identity in white-crowned sparrow song

Many bird songs are highly complex acoustic signals that broadcast a variety of information over long distances. General explanations for signal complexity assume that either different signal components are redundant, or that each component conveys a different message. Puget Sound white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis , song consists of several temporally discrete phrases or components, two of which, the note complex and trill, vary independently across vocal dialects. Previous playback experiments with males suggest that the terminal trill encodes dialect identity. Here we test whether both the note complex and trill encode individual identity, as predicted by the redundancy hypothesis, or whether the note complex alone serves this role, as predicted by the multiple messages hypothesis. Analyses of acoustic variation in note complexes and trills, and results of a neighbour–stranger song discrimination playback experiment support the multiple messages hypothesis. Note complexes were more individually distinctive among males, and males responded stronger when a neighbour's song had a stranger's note complex substituted than when the neighbour's trill was replaced with that of a stranger. The segregation of cues to individual and dialect identity into the note complex and trill phrases, respectively, supports the hypothesis that coding conflicts may be resolved by using different song components for different functions.

Dialectical Identity in a “Post-Critical” Era: A Hegelian Reading

Dialectical Identity in a “Post-Critical” Era: A Hegelian Reading

Dialectical Identity and Destiny: A General Introduction to Alexander Zinoviev's Theory of the Soviet Man

Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev, formerly head of the Logic Department at Moscow University and now exiled and stripped of his citizenship for behavior damaging prestige, has authored numerous books, lectured at international conferences, and is considered to be one of the most provocative thinkers of our time. Ranging from a satire that depicts the practices of Communist ideology in the Union to the sociological descriptions of a new type of man (substituting Homo Sovieticus for Homo Sapiens), his publications appear to be unorthodox analyses of contemporary life. In spite of his controversial conclusions, Zinoviev refuses to call himself a dissident and emphasizes that he is, first and foremost, the Man par excellence. He says: Soviet people cannot shed their identity. They may be dissidents, they may live abroad, they may be anti-Soviet from head-to-toe: their character will stand out in everything they write and do (A Dissenter 35). Yet, when speaking of the Man, he says: respect and I despise him. I am delighted with and I am appalled by him. I myself am a Homosos. Therefore I am merciless and cruel when I describe him (Homo 5). This paper is directed to those who wish to be acquainted with the intricate undercurrents found in contemporary life. It attempts to introduce the literary world of a highly educated thinker while, at the same time, identifying the major traits of his remarkable protagonist the man.

Dialectical Identity and Destiny: A General Introduction to Alexander Zinoviev's Theory of the Soviet Man

Dialectical Identity and Destiny: A General Introduction to Alexander Zinoviev's Theory of the Soviet Man