Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:555

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX555

Authors:
Cubells Bartolomé, Olga

Abstract:
THE FORMS OF LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN LA RIBERA D'EBRE. A GEOLINGUISTIC STUDYBefore describing the aim and findings of this research, some words about the target region are needed. La Ribera d'Ebre is a region located in Terres de l'Ebre, a geographical label used since some time ago to identify the southern regions of Catalonia.The present research focuses on the forms of language spoken in La Ribera d'Ebre. The objectives of this study are to make a linguistic description of these forms of language, by using detailed information and qualitative methods, and to dawn up different maps with the findings. Thus, this research contains a double piece of work: on one hand, it is a dialectological study based on the casual forms of language spoken in La Ribera d'Ebre; on the other hand, it is a geolinguistic study, in the sense that it contains an atlas with 1475 synthetic maps grouped according to different semantic fields. However, the conclusion maps used in the research are not synthetic but they are drawn up using isoglosses to present the findings.Since the main aim of this research is not a sociolinguistic aim , only the oldest generations of speakers were chosen as informants. By doing so, one can make sure that the data obtained is more homogeneous and, furthermore, the findings can give way to futher pieces of research taking different approaches.One of the main objectives of this research is to draw the boundary between two sub dialects: lleidatà and tortosí. Previous atudies on this issue have already concluded that the forms of language spoken in La Ribera d'Ebre belong to the North-occidental dialect of Catalan. However, none of them has gone further to determine to which sub dialect do they belong. According to the present research, it can be concluded that these fo