ConSOLE 31 2023 • Bielefeld University

Lexical variants in the digital archives of the East-Belgian newspaper GrenzEcho - A pilot corpus study

Emma Joveneau

Université de Namur, Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality

emma.joveneau@unamur.be
Pluricentric GermanLexical VariationEast Belgium

Abstract

Against the backdrop of the pluricentricity of German, this paper deals with standard variation at the lexical level in the German-speaking Community of Belgium, also known as East Belgium. After a short discussion of some important concepts such as standard varieties, variants, variables and language centres, a pilot corpus study conducted in the digital archives of the East-Belgian newspaper GrenzEcho will be presented. The aim of this study is to determine the occurrence of potential East-Belgian variants in the newspaper, as well as their frequencies of use as compared to other lexemes.

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Emma Joveneau (2023). lexical variants in the digital archives of the east-belgian newspaper grenzecho - a pilot corpus study. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 31, edited by Iva Kovač, Paul Meisenbichler, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh, Maximilian Wiesner, (pp. 69-92).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{joveneau-eastbelgian-2023, title={Lexical variants in the digital archives of the East-Belgian newspaper GrenzEcho - A pilot corpus study}, author={Emma Joveneau}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 31}, year={2023}, pages={69-92}, editor={Iva Kovač and Paul Meisenbichler and Atefeh Shahbazi and Hadis Tamleh and Maximilian Wiesner} }

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