Protetické v- mezi statistikou a rétorikou : K článku Vliv jazykových faktorů na užívání protetického v- v pražské mluvě

• Authors: Jiří Homoláč , Kamila Mrázková , Jitka Veroňková

Title variants

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Prothetic v- caught between rhetoric and statistics : On the article “The influence of intralinguistic factors on the usage of prothetic v- in the Prague vernacular”

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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This text is a critical response to Jan Chromý’s article “The influence of intralinguistic factors on the usage of prothetic v- in the Prague vernacular” (Slovo a slovesnost 76, 2015:21–38). Using methods from variationist sociolinguistics, Chromý made a significant contribution to the existing understanding of the intralinguistic factors influencing the usage of prothetic v-. In addition, he drew some conclusions about the impact of gender on the variable (v) and about linguistic change, asserting that the variant /v/ in the Prague vernacular is in decline. However, neither claim is justified by the findings presented in the article. The analyzed sample of speakers is too small to allow for generalizations regarding the correlation between gender and the use of the variable (v); moreover, Chromý does not take into consideration the high variability of prothetic v- use among individual female speakers. With regard to the supposed decline of prothetic v-, this conclusion is based on Chromý’s comparison between his own sample and Jančák’s research from the 1970s, but these samples are incomparable because the sociodemographic profiles of their informants differ. Chromý justifies this comparison according to the apparent time hypothesis, but, as we argue, the apparent time hypothesis cannot be successfully applied here.

Keywords

CS

variační sociolingvistika; protetické v-; hypotéza dobového zakotvení; věkové odstupňování; gender; běžná mluva v Praze

EN

variationist sociolinguistics; prothetic v-; apparent time hypothesis; gender; Prague vernacular

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 143-154
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Jiří Homoláč

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Kamila Mrázková

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Jitka Veroňková

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic