Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Rafał Górski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) on Thursday, November 27, 2025, at 12:15 pm, in SR 220, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
This lecture blends sociolinguistic theory with corpus methods to study the Spisz dialect through a quantitative lens. Grounded in variationist aims, it shows how a corpus of the speech of a community where a dialect is still widely used can test how social factors shape dialect–standard contrasts across contexts, speakers, and times.
The abstract…