Mitterfels Mitterfels is in Bavaria and
in bavaria is known directly
spoken
in my speech today i want to
talked about dialect on facebook
Talk and how to jump on facebook
to study as a linguist
can
and of course you could ask why
examine dialect scientifically
you should get one of their Bavarian
dialect not much more likely to get used to it
rather than scientifically
investigate
I would decide here
contradict because dialect has some
very important functions for example
for the cultural identity of his
speak by speaking one
common dialect arises between
the speakers a deep
feeling of solidarity
besides, one knows that children the
multilingual so with dialect and
growing up at the same time
cognitively much more demanding
and that has a positive effect on that
linguistic expressiveness and whole
Generally on the intelligence from now
Of course you could ask how it is
it’s really about that these days
Dialect speak adolescent stone yes
as we all know, all day long
on your smartphones and send yourself
cryptic messages via whatsapp
snap chat and facebook if so no one
more really talking to the other one
then it’s about the spoken dialect
probably also bad you could
mean
Fortunately, that is not the case
because if you look at the
texture of such digital
communication via smartphones once
take a closer look then you ask
that while very much indeed
written together but that
what is written is very strong
similarity with the spoken
language and benefits from it
also the spoken dialect becomes one
for example, a look at facebook
then you see that there are innumerable
groups with clearly Bavarian
are leitmotifs and have these groups
sometimes over thousands of members
in the groups with relative
unrestrained dialect written
maybe short interrogation are
dialectsprecher both snow depth
Speakers in the audience present okay
for the not dialectsprecher I read
the sentence maybe just before and
try to translate them simultaneously
the largest private is at the Beck and
david cage price in principle
hello i was just competing i
was just at the bakery and here I am
really annoyed because of us
now stepped
i do not believe it so the one
Bavarian dialect expression for
rolls apparently at
local becker acute by the not
Bavarian expression troops threatened too
be
and the user on facebook can do that
do not believe that here is only one
of many examples for dialect
language on facebook so we see
dialect is in no way through
digital media and facebook threatened
no, rather, the art and
wise how we use the leg
and that is just not more than primary
spoken language but increasingly
also in written form and this one
circumstance is for us direct researchers and
linguist very much
Practical because we have this kind
and access one
incredible pool of dialect samples
which one can examine directly one must
to know that as
Linguists usually only
very difficult approach depends directors
because you have to be authentic first
find dialectsprecher and this
Dialectsprecher must also have lust
agree with a linguist
entertained if one then directly
then found a spokesman
laborious about interviews and questions
lure him the electrodes
and what you lure out of it
are then mostly spoken dialect
in other words, one has sound recordings
how to make extra at home
hand transcribe so write off
I have to work a lot again
is on facebook
but this did not trouble the after
facebook write all users in
dialect directly into that means you can
download directly and immediately
analyze
only disadvantage of this type of
data collection is following here they are
I use two more dialect sentences
not read now and not
but I would like to go into more detail
come in these two sentences come
two words in front of them maybe
not so clear is what the words
can mean or how to use them
really translate
at the first word the other one could
over the dirndl or High German
may just be studying on the
Translation girl come
it is already on the second set
a little bit more difficult stood around
popular Bavarian word but how should
to translate that into what it means
may depend on the high-level language
somehow negatively stroll hitting it
Maybe he is not like that either
One hundred percent of the big question is
So how can you do this kind of data
translate later and that can
you can find out what the
mean words
the advantage of a face to face
interview with real dialect speak
is so that I ask people directly
you say something in rom stood
I can not do that on facebook without it
to do more while I could yes
actually acquainted with my facebook
Just sign me up in this group
and post a question and that
user of course not limited to Bavarian
to be noticed after their translation
There were questions
Of course you could do that
but will rather troublesome for me
because I have a lot of individual post
would have to write and probably
would have the user on a shortest
time no more lust with constantly
annoying questions to answer
we have the whole thing is something
reared differently and have for the 250th
Most common facebook words in ours
collect data
created a small translation game
that looks like this
the users are first of the
virtual bavarian beppo welcomes the
She completely asks in the case
the translation of difficult ones
electrodes to support
and then there are also directly release the
Users can set for set
Translate Bavarian words and thus
create a bavarian german lexicon
This game has been very successful
have in a first try within
from four weeks more than 300 users
Can win and these users
have more than 3000 translations
The result is as I said
a first prototype of a facebook
Both were based on German dialect
lexicon ‘s exclusively on
facebook is based directly on data and from
the facebook community about one
[Applause]
and this is what this lexicon looks like or
at least excerpts from we see here
single words and their translation
For example, Orden was called that
pays 1 translated relatively
unexciting
the book has been translated as a picture of the
buer or translate as a boy you see
behind it also a difficulty
for the translation of the words of this
difficulty level is calculated
the average time the users
needed to have a word
translate
you can see her at this bottom
word zefix a typical bavarian word
and a message of utter silence
Difficulty is relatively high
that means here were the users themselves
not agree or could not immediately
the standard linguistic translation
specify
the most common translation is damned
but as I said there were the users
by the way, one is not interesting either
here sees the frequency of the individual
words in our data collection that too
fix in bavarian apparently relative
often occur in ours
collection about 700 times more often
example as the ur or the medium so
fix seems a relatively central one
component of the Bavarian vocabulary
Last but not least you can in this
lexicon now also the individual little
seats for the bavarian words
look at
in the case of citrix, I once have two
specified
It is obvious on the one hand
very short sentences used as in
this year almost rhetorical sentence
Now you could maybe fix on
first translate with fucking real
now but also in longer set why
fix as an introduction for an almost already
philosophical passage about the
general permeability of
ephemera serves her at the workplace
fix the concept saw box in the office and
the crippling damn if that can yes
probably not be true
there you sit in the office and is from the
fly then maltreated the
castle tower in spring and others
came to the funeral
if you have one with the fly swatter
kills then comes two other mountain
funeral so a certain sweet
malice of the mayfly
with these two wonderful examples
Bavarian expressions of
in alphabetical order pretty much at the end of ours
lexicon come I’m already on
I arrive at the end of my presentation
but would like an encouraging
message to all is dialect spokesman
do not panic in the room
Before the next visit in Bavaria we
this electrics are still planning that seconds
continue to expand and want it too
publish soon
that is, when next in
bavaria is if you have this
lexicon all important words
look up and maybe even yourself
learn a bit both if they do
want
the final message to all
dialectsprecher is the dialect is in
Not at all through digital media like
Facebook and co threatened no it is clear
Rather, whole new possibilities
to use directly not just as
spoken language but also the
written and who knows
maybe there will be in the foreseeable future
on facebook yes even a direct brave
and with which one the Bavarian
emotions from the many thanks
[Applause]
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