{"id":1044,"date":"2018-10-04T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/?page_id=1044"},"modified":"2023-03-29T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:30:09","slug":"dialects-and-registers-in-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/research-projects\/thematic-groups\/dialects-and-registers-in-the-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"Thematic Group 2 &#8211; Dialects and Registers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leader:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntnu.edu\/employees\/andrew.weir\">Andrew Weir<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Members: <\/strong>Andrew Weir, Tor A. \u00c5farli, Kristin Melum Eide, \u00d8ystein Vangsnes, Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist, Bror-Magnus Strand, Kristine Bentzen, Tanja Kupisch, Kristin Klubbo Brodahl, Martin Kr\u00e4mer, Tina Louise Ringstad<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong>This group seeks to address the question: how are language varieties which are very closely related (varieties which might be pretheoretically considered \u2018dialects\u2019 or \u2018registers\u2019 of \u2018the same language\u2019) mentally represented in the language faculties of individuals who master more than one of these? Many language users are bi- (or multi-) dialectal, and can shift between their dialects depending on context. Do such speakers \u2018mentally segregate\u2019 the grammars of these dialects, and if so, how? Register variation poses a similar question: almost all language users can alter their register depending on context, both in the \u2018normal\u2019 sense of register (e.g. formal\/informal), but also depending on medium and genre &#8212; e.g. recipes\/instructional register show object drop in English, while this is not generally possible in spoken register. Cases like this last one show that register variation has or can have certain purely formal aspects in addition to sociolinguistic ones. Is register variation in the individual a limiting case of dialect variation \u2013 are essentially all language users \u2018multilingual\u2019, in the sense of Thomas Roeper\u2019s \u2018universal bilingualism\u2019? If so, what implications does this have for the architecture of grammar? Questions of this kind are intended to be the focus of the group, but there can potentially also be scope for inclusion of \u2018traditional\u2019 microvariationist work, in formal perspective, on closely related dialects and registers.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 1.79em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/workshop-register-and-dialect-variation-in-the-individual\/\"><strong>Workshop: <em>Register and dialect variation in the individual<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>NTNU Trondheim, 28 October 2019<br \/>\nDragvoll, room 4402D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader:\u00a0Andrew Weir Members: Andrew Weir, Tor A. \u00c5farli, Kristin Melum Eide, \u00d8ystein Vangsnes, Bj\u00f6rn Lundquist, Bror-Magnus Strand, Kristine Bentzen, Tanja Kupisch, Kristin Klubbo Brodahl, Martin Kr\u00e4mer, Tina Louise Ringstad Description: This group seeks to address the question: how are language varieties which are very closely related (varieties which might be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":0,"parent":1037,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1044\/revisions\/3225"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acqva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}