Bendrinės kalbos regionai jaunųjų lietuvių kalbos bendruomenės narių požiūriu: kompetencija ir vaizdiniai
Regions of the standard language from the point of view of young members of the Lithuanian language community: competence and images

Summary/Abstract: System of factors which is referred to when modelling a representative of a standard language includes education as well as social and cultural experience of a user. User’s profession or activity could also become a clear reference to the potential representative of the standard language speakers. From a theoretical perspective location mark is not one of the important factors, though theoretical models not always precisely correspond to the system of user’s attitudes and beliefs.The aim of this article is to discuss why the standard language becomes a localized code in the point of view of the young members of the language community. The researched problem – regions of the standard language from the point of view of the young members of the Lithuanian language community – is being discussed researching the images of the standard language variants prevalent in this group of users. Linguistic attitudes of the language users and estimators towards correctness, intelligibility, similitude to the standard language and appeal of textstimuli and localization of text-stimuli in so-called mental maps provide more or less an objective projection of these images.The investigation of the standard language localization issue is based on a part of the data collected during a complex research of perceptual dialectology carried out in November 2009, December 2010 and January 2011.A task of mental map of perceptual dialectology is the most important for the research of this issue. The research was carried out in schools and gymnasiums of Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Telšiai and Alytus. A total sample of the research included 276 respondents at the age of 14–18.The research data shows that the standard language is unlocalized only in scientific perspective. In the taxonomy of the members of the language community this code is associated with particular places. The place marker is not stereotypically unambiguous and accurate, but certain trends can be established.Two clear markers of the sociolinguistic portrait of the standard language user can be brought out: more frequently the standard language user is associated with major cities of Lithuania (Vilnius or Kaunas) rather than other towns and the standard language user can be the user of the respondent’s linguistic homeland code.Data from some of researched groups suggests an idea about the standard language zones near the cities or major towns. The research shows that Kaišiadorys, Kėdainiai, Vilkaviškis, Šakiai and Trakai could be included into such zones.During the task of mental mapping the participants of the research marked 41 places (large or small towns) in total. Some of these places start gaining the value of prototypic standard language place. This is the matter of attitudes and views and the respondents are not aware of the sociolinguistic concept of standard language. Only systemic research of the code observation would ensure “linguistic reality” of the data and become the basis for talking about the precise image of the standard language.

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