Métodos em Linguística Popular (aplicada): o que pensa o povo? (Methods in (applied) folk linguistics: getting into the minds of the folk)

Dennis R.  Preston

doi:10.22481/el.v19i2.9942

Authors

Dennis R. Preston Oklahoma State University (OKSTATE/USA) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-0211

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v19i2.9942

Keywords:

Folk Linguistics; Perceptual Dialetology; Applied Linguistics.

Abstract

This paper deals with data gathering and interpretation in folk linguistics, but, as the parenthetical title suggests, it is not limited to any prejudged notion of what approaches or techniques might be most relevant to the wide variety of concerns encompassed by applied linguistics. I will conceive of folk linguistics broadly here, including not only the comments that non-linguists make about linguistic topics but also the reactions they have to varieties of language and language use, including overt as well as subconscious responses. In other words, findings from the social psychology of language (i.e., attitude studies) are taken to be a part of folk linguistics, along with data derived from more conscious discourse or from operational tasks. This is a different position from one that assigns the label “folk linguistics” to more conscious responses and “language attitudes” to relatively more unconscious ones (e.g., NIEDZIELSKI; PRESTON, 2003, p. xi).

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Author Biography

Dennis R. Preston, Oklahoma State University (OKSTATE/USA)

Dennis R. Preston é doutor pela Universidade de Wisconsin. É Professor Regente e Co-Diretor do Centro de Estudos de Oklahoma, Universidade Estadual de Oklahoma e Professor Emérito da Universidade Estadual de Michigan. Foi diretor do Linguistic Society of America Institute de 2003, presidente da American Dialect Society. Suas pesquisas se inscrevem nos campos da sociolinguística, dialetologia e linguística popular.

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