| Title: |
The design principles of a sociolinguistic typological questionnaire for language contact research |
| Authors: |
Kashima, Eri; Di Garbo, Francesca; Singer, Ruth; Khanina, Olesya |
| Contributors: |
Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies; General Linguistics; Department of Languages |
| Publisher Information: |
Brill |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Helsingfors Universitet: HELDA – Helsingin yliopiston digitaalinen arkisto |
| Subject Terms: |
Languages; Bilingualism; Comparative sociolinguistics; Language contact; Multilingualism; Questionnaires; Small-scale; Societal multilingualism; Sociolinguistic typology; Sociology of language |
| Description: |
This paper presents the design rationale and pilot demonstration of the GramAdapt Social Contact questionnaire; a research tool developed for collecting global comparative sociolinguistic data on language contact scenarios. The questionnaire is qualitative with quantitative potential, inviting language community experts to provide best assessment answers to questions about social contact in their communities of expertise. The main purpose is to compare contact scenarios, however the questionnaire can also be a broad survey of any given contact situation as it was designed to target factors associated with language contact and change phenomena at large. Two experts of small-scale multilingual communities answer an abridged version of the questionnaire to qualitatively demonstrate this proof of concept. The experts of Mawng and Kunbarlang (northern Australia), and Tundra Enets and Nganasan (northern Siberia) were chosen as these communities defy nation-based models of multilingualism. The responses are broadly successful, thus demonstrating the theoretical contribution and methodological potential of this questionnaire. ; Peer reviewed |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
European Commission; Kone Foundation; 805371; We would like to thank our colleagues Friederike Lupke, Maria Khachaturyan, Ksenia Shegal, and Max Wahlstrom for comments on earlier versions of the questionnaire. We are also grateful for the feedback of our GramAdapt col-leagues Kaius Sinnemaki, Ricardo Napoleao De Souza, and Janne Loisa, with special thanks to Oona Raatikainen. This publication is part of the GramAdapt project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 805371) . Olesya Khanina would also like to thank the Kone Foundation for providing funding during the time she worked on the questionnaire responses (2021) .; https://hdl.handle.net/10138/592916; 85217484974; 001447742200001 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10138/592916 |
| Rights: |
cc_by ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6295391F |
| Database: |
BASE |