To the Question of Linguistic and Sociocultural Status of Viennese Dialect

The problem of the research of the features of Modern German in Austria, the functioning of dialect as a means of communications and defining the position of dialect within the system of the Austrian national variant of the German language turn out to be the issues of a scholarly importance. The experimental research with the help of new means and technologies such as social network services are considered to be relevant. Various types of surveys conducted in social network Facebook help to get objective information about the status, prestige and features of development of Austrian dialects. The comparative characteristic of the phonetic, lexico-semantic, and grammatical features of Viennese dialect is given in the article. The survey of 85 Austrian respondents within Facebook network enables the researcher to make conclusions about present status, social base, spheres of usage, prospects of existence, tendencies of further development of Viennese dialect in Austrian national variant of German. The Viennese dialect is considered not only as a variety of German in Austria, but also important means of the conservation of identity and national culture of Austrians. The data for study are taken from modern dialectological sources: audio recordings of speech of Viennese dialect native speakers, dialectological dictionaries and atlases, the results of sociolinguistic experiment in social network Facebook.

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