Supper or dinner
Sociolinguistic variation in the meals of the day
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11308632 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bridget L Jankowski (0000-0002-1250-3831, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Sali A Tagliamonte (0000-0002-1955-2396, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170-201 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0172-8865 • E-ISSN: 1569-9730 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/eww.00027.jan |
| OpenAlex | W2951682042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 22 |
The English words for daily meals constitute a complex lexical variable conditioned by social and linguistic factors. Comparative sociolinguistic analysis of 884 speakers from more than a dozen locations in Ontario, Canada reveals a synchronic system with social correlates that are reflexes of the British and American founder populations of the province. Toronto and Loyalist settlements in southern Ontario use the highest rates of dinner while northerners with European and Scots-Irish roots use supper. Dinner is taking over as the dominant form among younger speakers, exposing a cascade pattern ( Trudgill 1972 ; Labov 2007 ) that is consistent with sociolinguistic typology ( Trudgill 2011 )
Archaeology · Dozen · Geography · Irish · Linguistics · Scots · Sociology · Supper · Typology · Anthropology · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |