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Measuring Convergence and Divergence in Varieties of Chinese: A Lectometric Approach

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Project "CHILECTO" data sheet

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Coordinator
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN 

Organization address
address: OUDE MARKT 13
city: LEUVEN
postcode: 3000
website: www.kuleuven.be

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 Coordinator Country Belgium [BE]
 Total cost 172˙800 €
 EC max contribution 172˙800 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-07-10   to  2020-07-09

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1    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN BE (LEUVEN) coordinator 172˙800.00

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 Project objective

What can Chinese teach us about the languages of Europe? Sociolinguistic research has obtained important insights into the dynamics of the languages of Europe: the emergence of pluricentric varieties, the global influence of English, the tendency towards informalization of the standard languages. But are these phenomena typically European, or are the same forces at work in other linguistic areas? A comparison with Chinese may provide an answer: I will analyze three varieties of Chinese (mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore) from the same perspectives that have been applied to the convergences and divergences of European languages, and with the same (quantitative, so-called ‘lectometric’) methods. Getting to know these methods better will be how I will benefit from the project. Conversely, the data that I will be able to obtain for the current evolution of Chinese will deepen the understanding of the European tendencies. For instance, does the size of the languages involved play a role, or the kind of language policies at work in the different countries? In practice, the project intends: 1) to evaluate lectometric measurements that have been recently developed for studying changes in the position of standard languages in Europe and offer a methodological guideline with which lexical variation among lects can be structured more comprehensively and cost-efficiently; 2) to identify the multifactorial variational structure that underlies the Chinese lexicon in written texts (synchronically); 3) to uncover how the stratificational distances among lects are changing progressively (diachronically) and to confront with what we find for Chinese and what we know about the processes in Europe. The project targets academics as well as policy makers. It will provide new insights into the (lectometric) study of language variation, and thus yield fine-grained empirical evidence for language planning at the political level.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2020 Stefano De Pascale, Weiwei Zhang and Kris Heylen
Scaling-up lexical variationist research in pluricentric languages with type- and token-level vector semantics
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the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) 2020 \"workshop \"\"Empirical Studie 2020-04-01

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