Document Type
finalproject
Degree
Master of Arts
Department
Department of English
First Advisor's Name
Phillip M. Carter
First Advisor's Committee Title
Major professor
Second Advisor's Name
Melissa Baralt
Second Advisor's Committee Title
committee member
Third Advisor's Name
Ellen Thompson
Third Advisor's Committee Title
committee member
Date of Defense
2017
Abstract
Scholarship in folk dialectology has successfully demonstrated that folk beliefs about language vary wildly according to geographical region. The current study, an analysis of non-linguists’ beliefs toward language in Florida and Miami-Dade County, reports on the results of a study using Dennis Preston’s draw-a- map technique, processed with ArcGIS. Two maps, a map which depicted a minimally-labeled outline of the State of Florida, and a second map which depicted the outline of Miami-Dade County, were given to 46 participants. When collected, the maps were scanned and geo-referenced into ArcGIS, a Geographical Information Systems (GIS)-based tool used to process perceptual dialectology data using techniques outlined by Montgomery and Stoeckle (2013). Analysis of the map data shows that participants perceive the state of Florida as a multidimensional language continuum from the state line in the north to the southern tip of the peninsula, and perceive multiple, distinct language communities in Miami-Dade County. These findings suggest that South Florida residents connect language varieties strongly with distinct geographic and perceived sociocultural spaces.
Identifier
FIDC006306
Recommended Citation
Garzon, Daniel, "Exploring Miamians’ Perceptions of Linguistic Variation In Miami-Dade County and The State Of Florida" (2017). MA in Linguistics Final Projects. 5.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/linguistics_ma/5
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