Der „Jejeo andaluz“: Soziolinguistische Variation eines stigmatisierten Phänomens und seine Verwendung im digitalen Raum / The “jejeo andaluz”: Sociolinguistic Variation of a Stigmatized Phenomenon and ist Use in the Digital Space)
DOI: 10.23817/lingtreff.18-28 (published online: 2020-11-30)
pp. 387–399
Keywords: Andalusian Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Jejeo, Hypervernacularization, Phonographics
This paper analyzes the phonetical phenomenon of jejeo for the western Andalusian variety of European Spanish. Jejeo means that /s/ and /θ/ in syllable initial position are neutralized in favor of an aspirated sound [h]. While the relevant literature indicates that the phenomenon is barely occurring, mainly between rural, elderly or lower educated speakers, it can be shown in the first corpora of this contribution that urban Andalusians with university degrees also realize jejeo orally in determined co- and contexts. In another corpus it is demonstrated that speakers who have a tendency to practice jejeo in oral use can also practice the phenomenon phonographically when communicating digitally, here exemplified with the digital messaging platform WhatsApp. Hence hypervernacularization is not assumed in the context of Jejeo for the Jerezano speech community.
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