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Freed, Alice F. "Language and Gender." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 15 (March 1995): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190500002580.
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In the past several years the subfield of sociolinguistics known as language and gender has developed a sophistication that could not have been predicted from the research of the early 1970s. While this area of study has evolved along many of the same lines as other branches of sociolinguistics, the lessons of language and gender research have informed the wider field by producing an awareness of the subtlety of such categories as sex and gender (along with class and ethnicity); it has forced a reevaluation of these categories, once assumed to correlate in a straightforward fashion with language variation.
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Trousdale, Graeme. "The sociolinguistics reader volume 2: Gender and discourse." Lingua 110, no. 7 (July 2000): 497–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(00)90009-3.
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Cameron, Deborah. "11. GENDER ISSUES IN LANGUAGE CHANGE." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23 (March 2003): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190503000266.
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It has long been apparent to scholars that gender exerts an influence on language change. Recently, however, the patterns of gender differentiation attested in empirical studies have been reinterpreted in the light of current social constructionist understandings of gender. Drawing on recent work in variationist sociolinguistics, sociology of language and linguistic anthropology, this chapter focuses on new approaches to explaining gender differentiated patterns of sound change and language shift, the success or failure of planned linguistic reforms, and changes in the social evaluation of gendered speech styles.
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Sabino, Robin. "The Sociolinguistics Reader: Multilingualism and Variation, Vol. 1, The Sociolinguistics Reader: Gender and Discourse, Vol. 2." Journal of English Linguistics 28, no. 2 (June 2000): 202–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00754240022004983.
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Kipers, Pamela S. "Gender and topic." Language in Society 16, no. 4 (December 1987): 543–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500000373.
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ABSTRACTThis article has two purposes. The first is to examine the relationship between topic and gender on the basis of observation of naturally occurring conversations among all-male, all-female, and mixed gender groups. The second is to undertake an analysis of the relative importance or triviality of these conversations as perceived by the conversants themselves. Several unexpected agreements and differences were found. (Sociolinguistics, conversational topic, gender-related language differences, intuition versus data-based investigation in the study of language, speech acts, English, United States)
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Ehrlich, Susan. "GENDER AS SOCIAL PRACTICE." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 19, no. 4 (December 1997): 421–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263197004014.
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This paper reviews current research on language and gender and discusses the implications of such work for gender-based research in second language acquisition. Recent work in sociolinguistics, generally, and language and gender research, more specifically, has rejected categorical and fixed notions of social identities in favor of more constructivist and dynamic ones. Thus, in this paper I elaborate a conception of gender that has not generally informed research in the field of second language acquisition, and point to more recent work in the field that theorizes and investigates gender as a construct shaped by historical, cultural, social, and interactional factors.
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Lawson, Robert. "Language and Masculinities: History, Development, and Future." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 409–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011650.
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In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research, growing in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a variety of contexts and the myriad links connecting language and the social performance of gender. This review surveys the historical trajectory of scholarship broadly concerned with men, masculinities, and language and charts its development from more critical work on men and masculinities within sociology to its emergence as an independent field of inquiry. I outline some of the key contributions this body of work has made to sociolinguistic theory, methodology, and knowledge and suggest some future research directions through which the field may engage with contemporary social issues.
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Cameron, Deborah. "Language and gender: Mainstreaming and the persistence of patriarchy." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 263 (April 28, 2020): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2078.
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AbstractIssues related to gender (and sexuality), largely ignored in the early development of sociolinguistics, have emerged as a cornerstone of the field. Spurred on by the feminist movement and new generations of engaged scholars addressing how language use both reveals and embeds gender inequalities, scholarship on such questions is now “mainstream” across a range of disciplines. Deborah Cameron argues that the primary focus in recent decades on social identity and performance, while path-breaking in many ways, has had the unintended consequence of drawing attention away from core issues of power and patriarchy in terms of gender relations.
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Baranowski, Maciej. "Class matters: the sociolinguistics ofgooseandgoatin Manchester English." Language Variation and Change 29, no. 3 (October 2017): 301–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394517000217.
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AbstractThis paper reports on patterns of sociolinguistic variation and change in Manchester'sgooseandgoatvowels on the basis of the acoustic analysis of 122 speakers, stratified by age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity.Goosefronting is an internal change showing little social differentiation, except before /l/ as inschoolandpool, where, in contrast to most other dialects of English,gooseshows advanced fronting inversely correlated with socioeconomic status.Goatfronting, on the other hand, is a change brought from outside the dialect by the highest status groups, displaying a pattern of monotonic social stratification, a female lead, and a strong effect of ethnicity. The role of attitudes toward the community in the realization of the vowels is compared with the effect of social class construed in terms of distances between social groups. Social class turns out to be a better predictor, suggesting that the role of attitudes and identity may be overestimated in research eschewing a systematic exploration of social class at the same time.
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Hartford, Beverly S. "SOCIOLINGUISTICS.Bernard Spolsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 128. $8.75 paper." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 21, no. 4 (December 1999): 666–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263199234079.
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This book is an introductory text intended for nonspecialists in sociolinguistics or linguistics. It is organized into four sections and designed so that its first section, the “Survey of Sociolinguistics,” may be read alone or along with the accompanying selected readings in the second part. The third and fourth sections are references and a glossary. The readings section also contains study questions that refer to both the survey and the readings, leading the reader to integrate the information in both sections. The topics covered in the survey include the social study of language, the ethnography of speaking and structure of conversation, locating variations in speech, styles, gender, and social class, bilinguals and bilingualism, societal multilingualism, and applied sociolinguistics (which covers language policy and planning).
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Muti, Cut Kania Annissa Jingga, Nisa Faradilla, and Sarah Ziehan Harahap. "LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY OF TEENAGERS TOWARD THE CATEGORIES OF GENDER IN LANGSA KOTA." LANGUAGE LITERACY: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching 2, no. 1 (July 7, 2018): 58–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/ll.v2i1.465.
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ABSTRAKSociolinguistics is a study or discussion of language related to the language Sociolinguistics consists of two elements of the word that is socio and linguistics. Linguistics is the study of language, especially the elements of language (speech, word, sentence) and the relationship between speakers who are part of the members of society.Sociolinguistics places the position of language in relation to its use in society. This means that sociolinguistics views language as primarily a social system and communication system, and is part of a particular society and culture. Hence language and use of language are not observed individually but are always associated with their activities in society.Every human being born into the world is elected into two types, women and men. Gender refers to differences in male and female characters based on cultural construction, relating to the nature of their status, position, and role in society as well as socially-culturally constructed gender differences.In sociolinguistics, language and gender have a very close relationship. There is the phrase "why do women talk differently from men?" In other words, we are concerned with several factors that make women prefer to use standard language compared to men. In this regard, it is worth examining the language as a social part, a deed of value, reflecting the complexity of social networks, politics, culture, and age and society relations.language ideology is ideas and beliefs about what a language is, how it works and how it should work, which are widely accepted in particular communities and which can be shown to be consequential for the way languages are both used and judged in the actual social practice of those communities. In the community of western intellectuals, for instance, one key language ideology is inherited from the tradition of ideas whose major exponents include John Locke (in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding) and Ferdinand de Saussure (in the reconstructed and posthumously published work whose English translation is titled A Course in General Linguistics). In this tradition, signs (or words they are usually treated as being the same thing) stand for ideas, language is the means for conveying those ideas from one mind to another, and the process is underwritten by a sort of social contract, whereby speakers of a given language agree to make the same signs stand for the same ideas.
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McDonald, Katherine. "The sociolinguistics of gender, social status and masculinity in Aristophanes." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 2, no. 2 (October 1, 2016): 155–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2016-0011.
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AbstractThis article explores variation in the language of male characters in the plays of the Athenian playwright Aristophanes, using Thesmophoriazusae and Frogs as in-depth case studies. Studies of modern languages have shown that men’s linguistic practices can be just as marked for gender as women’s, and the data from these plays bears this out. Using past work on ‘female speech’ as a starting point, this article explores the incidence of gendered markers in male characters’ speech, and shows that some of these features characterise not just gender but the intersection of different aspects of identity including gender, social class and sexuality. These features include particular oaths, obscenities, certain uses of the particle ge, hedging and politeness strategies. The article shows that a lack of male-associated speech markers is enough to characterise a male Greek speaker as ‘unmanly’, without the addition of female-associated speech markers.
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Baker, Paul. "Review of Murphy (2010): Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating Age and Gender in Female Talk." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16, no. 1 (March 11, 2011): 137–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16.1.07bak.
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Dan, Jiao, and Li Rui. "A Study of Linguistic Behavior from the Perspective of Sociolinguistic—Taking My Fair Lady as an Example." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 1, no. 2 (September 25, 2017): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v1n2p162.
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<p><em>People’s social background is closely related to people’s language behavior, and even people who use the same language will have many differences because of their social backgrounds. The movie “My Fair Lady” gives you a visual enjoyment. And this paper analyzes the film from the perspective of sociolinguistics. The language act presented in this film fully illustrates the relationship between language and social class, gender, and geographical factors, which explains the influence of people’s language behavior on their social status and gender, and also shows the influence of these factors on people’s language behavior. </em></p>
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DEBY RAHMAWATI, Elvi Citra Resmana, and Lia Maulia Indrayani. "WOMEN LANGUAGE FEATURES IN RECODE WORLD’S TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES." ELT-Lectura 6, no. 2 (August 20, 2019): 186–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/elt-lectura.v6i2.3122.
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This research analyzes the women language features in giving public speeches in RECODE World’s Technology Conferences. The writer used Lakoff’s on Holmes (2013) theory to analyze the data. The writer applies descriptive qualitative method by Creswell (2014). Data for this reseach is women utterance during conference. Basen on theory by Lakoff, the author discover six women language features.The result of this research shown that there are six women language feature that appear, there are lexical hedges, intensifier, superpolite form, avoidance strong swear, empty adjective, and emphatic stress.
Keyword: sociolinguistics, gender language, women language features.
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Hall, Kira, Erez Levon, and Tommaso M. Milani. "Navigating normativities: Gender and sexuality in text and talk." Language in Society 48, no. 4 (August 21, 2019): 481–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404519000447.
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This special issue was born out of a conversation initiated at a panel organized by two of us at the ninth biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), held at City University of Hong Kong in May 2016. The principal goal of the panel was to stimulate an academic discussion on the role of normativity and antinormativity in language, gender, and sexuality research in response to a series of critical interventions in cultural studies regarding some of the tenets underpinning queer theory (see Wiegman 2012; Penney 2014; Wiegman & Wilson 2015). It was our belief that sociolinguistics—with its focus on situated interpretations of social practice—has much to contribute, both theoretically and empirically, to these debates within cultural studies. This special issue is an initial attempt at articulating what such a contribution would be.
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Hachimi, Atiqa. "The urban and the urbane: Identities, language ideologies, and Arabic dialects in Morocco." Language in Society 41, no. 3 (May 23, 2012): 321–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404512000279.
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AbstractThe migration of old-urban elites to new-urban areas has been given scant attention in the sociolinguistics of mobility. This article examines language ideologies of differentiation that emerged from the migration of Morocco's bona fide old-urban elite from the city of Fez (the Fessis) to the new metropolis of Casablanca. This understudied sociolinguistic encounter brings into sharp focus two quintessential old-urban and new-urban varieties of Arabic along with their complex indexical system that links linguistic forms to identities, lifestyles, and moralities. Based on ethnography and discourse analysis of interviews with two women of Fessi extraction in Casablanca (a migrant and a local-born), I provide an in-depth account of what sounding Fessi means and accomplishes—and fails to accomplish—for these women, showing in the process the (re)production and change of language ideologies. The article demonstrates how changes in indexicalities relate to ongoing group boundary reconfiguration and to processes of linguistic (non)accommodation. (Arabic, North Africa, language ideologies, indexicality, gender, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics of mobility, historical prestige, social reallocation)*
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Johnson, Donna M., and Duane H. Roen. "Complimenting and involvement in peer reviews: Gender variation." Language in Society 21, no. 1 (March 1992): 27–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500015025.
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ABSTRACTThis article presents an analysis of gender differences in the use of compliments in one genre of written discourse. The data base is a set of 47 peer reviews of academic papers written by graduate students in the form of letters. Drawing on work from several theoretical perspectives, we analyzed the forms, strategies, and discourse functions of compliments in these papers. We found that women made significantly greater use of compliment intensifiers and personal referencing than did men. In using compliments to structure discourse, women more often framed the text with both opening and closing compliments. Consistent patterns suggested that women writers accommodated to the gender of their addressee more than did men, resulting in a discernible female-female complimenting style. The study illustrates specific ways that gender is involved in being polite and in creating and sustaining a sense of involvement in written discourse. (Complimenting, politeness, sociolinguistics, gender, discourse strategies, cross-sex communication, English)
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McELHINNY, BONNIE, MARIJKE HOLS, JEFF HOLTZKENER, SUSANNE UNGER,, and CLAIRE HICKS. "Gender, publication and citation in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology: The construction of a scholarly canon." Language in Society 32, no. 3 (June 2003): 299–328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404503323012.
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Feminist scholars have begun to ask how existing conceptual schemes and organizational structures in academic disciplines have excluded women and feminist ideas, and to provide suggestions for transformation. One strand of this work has been the exploration of how canons of thought are constructed in such fields as economics, sociology, and sociocultural anthropology. This article begins such an investigation for sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology by reviewing how gender correlates with publication and citation over a 35-year period (1965–2000) in five key journals, and in 16 textbooks published in the 1990s. It describes some marked differences in the publication of works by women and on gender in the five journals, as well as some significant differences in the degree to which men and women cite the work of women. It also considers how the rate of publication of articles on sex, gender, and women is correlated with publication of female authors. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of this study for changing institutional practices in our field.
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Van Epps, Briana, and Gerd Carling. "From three genders to two: the sociolinguistics of gender shift in the Jämtlandic dialect of Sweden." Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 49, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 53–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2017.1286811.
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Matwick, Keri, and Kelsi Matwick. "Humor and Performing Gender on TV Cooking Shows." HUMOR 32, no. 1 (February 25, 2019): 125–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2017-0093.
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Abstract A central aspect of humor is its social function in relating to others and in performing gender. Drawing on insights from interactional sociolinguistics and gender studies, this article explores the relationship between humor and gender in the context of one US instructional tv cooking show The Pioneer Woman. The gender element, while essential to performed humor, is often neglected in research on humor, language, and the media; therefore, this paper looks into how humor is signaled in the cooking show individually and jointly. Humorous joking of the female host Ree Drummond is discussed, specifically self-directed humor and teasing as expressed in personal stories and exaggeration. The ambiguity of the humorous messages reveals contradictory messages: on the one hand, self-deprecating humor reveals feelings of inadequacy for not meeting gendered status quo, and on the other hand, teasing and self-deprecation function as a persuasive strategy to promote the celebrity’s cooking and brand.
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Owusu, Edward, Samuel Kyei Adoma, and Daniel Oti Aboagye. "Sociolinguistics of the Varieties of West African Pidgin Englishes—A Review." Studies in English Language Teaching 4, no. 4 (November 14, 2016): 534. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v4n4p534.
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<p><em>Language contact is a key issue in the field of sociolinguistics. One notable phenomenon in the field of language contact is Pidgin English. Historically, Pidgin began as a language marked by traditional interference used chiefly by the prosperous and privileged sections of a community, represented by the unskilled and illiterate class of the society (Quirk et al., 1985). However, nowadays, it has gained status in some communities to the extent that it has become the mother-tongue of such communities. This paper, therefore, investigates the sociolinguistics of the multiplicity of West African Pidgins of Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana against some sociolinguistic variables of gender, attitudes, code switching, borrowing, slang, and domains of language use. The paper has been structured into two main parts. The first section contains the reviews/synopses of the various papers or works that have been used for the study. The second section deals with a discussion on the prominent sociolinguistic variables found in the various papers.</em><em></em></p>
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Murphy, Bróna. "Exploring response tokens in Irish English — a multidisciplinary approach." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17, no. 3 (December 31, 2012): 325–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.17.3.02mur.
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Schneider & Barron (2008) discuss the effect of macro-social factors such as region, ethnic background, age, social status and gender on intra-lingual pragmatic conventions, and state that, to date, they have received comparatively little attention in the study of pragmatics. This paper chooses two macro-social factors, age and gender, and focuses on how they impact on the use of response tokens in Irish English. Not only does the paper shed light on the use of variational pragmatics as a framework for corpus-based studies but it also brings together research on sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics, which has, to-date, been scarce (Baker 2010). The paper reveals the importance of avoiding the exploration of sociolinguistic variables in isolation and concludes by highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research and the merits of fine-grained sociolinguistic investigations using small corpora.
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Osborn, Terry A. "Review of Trudgill & Cheshire (1998): The Sociolinguistics Reader. Volume 1: Multilingualism and Variation & Cheshire & Trudgill (1998): The Sociolinguistics Reader. Volume 2: Gender and Discourse." Language Problems and Language Planning 23, no. 2 (December 31, 1999): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.23.2.10osb.
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King, Brian W. "Hip Hop headz in sex ed: Gender, agency, and styling in New Zealand." Language in Society 47, no. 4 (July 16, 2018): 487–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404518000623.
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AbstractThis study examines Hip Hop styling, gender, and sexual agency in a sex education class. The focus is on the indirect indexing of gender by a female-bodied student through the Hip Hop cultural personas of braggadocio and swagger, providing a rare look at ‘mundane’ performances of Hip Hop and its relationship to gender. Discourse analysis demonstrates that she used Hip Hop styling to manage ascriptions of sexual agency during a discussion task as she repeatedly recontextualized the telling of a classroom incident. Her language use afforded the trying out of identity meanings and required complex discursive work in relation to constructs such as masculinity, femininity, straight, and lesbian. These processes assisted her to negotiate how sexual agency might fit with her various identifications and identities. Therefore the potential for Hip Hop styling to connect identities with language has implications for both sexuality education and the study of sociolinguistics. (Agency, gender, Hip Hop, performativity, sexuality, social identities, styling)*
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Oenbring, Raymond. "Review of Murphy (2010): Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating Age and Gender in Female Talk." Journal of Language and Politics 12, no. 1 (May 13, 2013): 152–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.12.1.08oen.
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Kubota, Ryuko. "Confronting Epistemological Racism, Decolonizing Scholarly Knowledge: Race and Gender in Applied Linguistics." Applied Linguistics 41, no. 5 (June 15, 2019): 712–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz033.
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Abstract Recent scholarship in sociolinguistics and language education has examined how race and language intersect each other and how racism influences linguistic and educational practices. While racism is often conceptualized in terms of individual and institutional injustices, a critical examination of another form of racism—epistemological racism—problematizes how racial inequalities influence our knowledge production and consumption in academe. Highlighting the importance of the intersectional nature of identity categories, this conceptual article aims to draw scholars’ attention on how epistemological racism marginalizes and erases the knowledge produced by scholars in the Global South, women scholars of color, and other minoritized groups. In today’s neoliberal culture of competition, scholars of color are compelled to become complicit with white Euro-American hegemonic knowledge, further perpetuating the hegemony of white knowledge while marginalizing women scholars of color. Valorizing non-European knowledge and collectivity as an alternative framework also risks essentialism and male hegemony. Conversely, the ethics promoted by black feminism emphasizes a personal ethical commitment to antiracism. Epistemological antiracism invites scholars to validate alternative theories, rethink our citation practices, and develop critical reflexivity and accountability.
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Uchida, Aki. "When “difference” is “dominance”: A critique of the “anti-power-based” cultural approach to sex differences." Language in Society 21, no. 4 (December 1992): 547–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500015724.
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ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the dichotomization of two opposing approaches to studying sex differences in language use: the “difference/cultural” approach, which treats women and men as having “different but equally valid” rules of conversation, and the “dominance/power-based” approach, which focuses on male dominance and sexual division of labor in talk. I critique the stance taken by the difference approach. First, its notion of women and men as belonging to different “cultures” is too simplistic to account for everything that occurs in mixed-sex conversation. Second, the dichotomization of “power” and “culture” as two separate, independent concepts is inappropriate, because social interaction always occurs in the context of a patriarchal society. As a direction for further research, I propose that the relationship between gender and language should be approached from the viewpoint that we are doing gender in interaction. (Sociolinguistics, communication, conversational style, gender, sex differences)
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Wiyanto, Muhammad Saibani, and Panji Wisnu Asmorobangun. "GENDER DIFFERENCES OF STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT." Journal of Languages and Language Teaching 8, no. 2 (April 25, 2020): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v8i2.2314.
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Language has an important role for every member of the speech community. The connection between language and society is recognized as the main interest of sociolinguistics. Nowadays, sociolinguistic has involved many significant research topics. One of them is the relationship between gender and language. Studies about gender differences have been conducted for many years, which also deals with the use of a language as a foreign language. For instance, studying English as a foreign language (EFL) among the nonnative speakers and its gender-sensitive investigation. The current article provides insights on gender differences among senior high school students with a focus on their writing ability. The purposes of this article were to find the linguistic feature that male and female students tend to use and to find out the gender differences reflected on the students writing ability. The article used a qualitative design with document analysis as the approach. The subject of this article was one class of X MIPA 2 at MAN 6 Jombang. The source of the data was students’ writings, while the data were all linguistics components of the students’ works. The data contain some types of linguistic features based on Mulac’s theory. This article found four linguistic features used by the students. It can be concluded that males often used locative feature and females often used a reference to quantity feature and “I” reference feature.
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Lana Hasanah, Siska Pradina, Almira Hadita, and Wella Cisilya Putri. "Sociolinguistic Influence in the Use of English as Second Language Classroom: Seeing from OGO’s Perspective." ELSYA : Journal of English Language Studies 1, no. 1 (May 27, 2019): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/elsya.v1i1.2538.
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This paper aims to provide a brief overview and review of the research conducted by Ofodu Graceful Onovughe under the title Sociolinguistics Inputs and English as Second Language Classrooms published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education. Using descriptive qualitative analysis, this paper tries to understand what sociolinguistic influences are most significant from the researchers' perspective. The sociolinguistic influence in language acquisition and the use of English as a second language in the classroom are the main focus of this study. This article is intended to provide a brief review of the sociolingistics influences of the most significant use of second language in the classroom. The findings in this study see that the research of Ofodu Graceful Onovughe using the design of this study adopted survey research with the population taken consisted of all secondary school students at Akure Regional Government of Ondo, Nigeria. The number of students in the sample was 240 high school students who were deliberately selected from 6 schools randomly. Used for data collection is a questionnaire of 14 items designated to obtain the information needed. The instrument trials were also carried out in this study to community junior secondary schools in Ekiti State. From the 5 existing hypotheses, the findings reveal that parent work is one of the significant sociolinguistic influences on the use of English in middle school students, other findings also reveal that gender, ages, religion, and student classes will not significantly influence the use of English in middle school students in their classrooms. Therefore, the findings of this study will illustrate whether the articles "Sociolinguistics Inputs and English as Second Language Classrooms" published by Canadian Center of Science and Education written by Ofodu Graceful Onovughe can be replicated in the same field or simply become a reference reading in the field of sociolinguistics.
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Thornborrow, Joanna. "Ruth Wodak (ed.), Gender and discourse. (Sage studies in discourse.) London (UK) & Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 1997. Pp. ix, 303. Pb $27.95. Helga Kotthoff & Ruth Wodak (eds.), Communicating gender in context. (Pragmatics and beyond, n.s., 42.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xxv, 424. Hb $114.00." Language in Society 29, no. 2 (April 2000): 266–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500232041.
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These two collections of articles offer a spectrum of current work in the field of language and gender. Contributors to both volumes include some leading researchers in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis from Britain, America, and New Zealand; the Kotthoff & Wodak book also contains work by contributors from Germany, Sweden, Holland, and Austria. Despite the latter volume's stated aim of bridging the gap in scholarly awareness between Europe and the English-speaking world, we are in effect still dealing with work from a particular section of Europe, i.e. essentially northern European and Germanic countries. With the exception of one study of Spanish women's talk, southern and Mediterranean Europe are still largely absent from the language and gender research scene presented here.
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Olefir, Hanna, Ivan Deineko, and Iryna Deineko. "Gender Identification in French: from Ideology to Morphology." PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, no. 38 (2020): 32–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2663-6530.2020.38.03.
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The spread of the feminitives (gender-marked nouns) is a modern trend of the language development resulting from the social processes. It is taking place within systemic identification and validation of the woman in texts. The history of sociolinguistic opposition of the French-speaking society to the use of feminitives andtext feminization has significant differences between various French-speaking countries, a subject researched by linguistics, sociolinguistics and geolinguistics. The Canadian province of Québec published its recommendations on use of feminitives as early as in 1979; later they were elaborated, refined and expanded. Swiss Geneva passed provisions for the feminisation of professions in 1988; a respective guide was developed in 1991. Respective Belgian regulations were introduced in 1993. However, all the French-speaking countries recognise France’s right to take any final decision regarding questions of the French language. The country had a waiting attitude and made its first steps towards gender identification in 1984, while the big changes that attracted the attention of the society took place in 1998. Since then detailed revision of the language policy became regular aiming at securing a strong position in the modern world. In 2018, the use of feminitives was ordered to be obligatory in the legal documents. French academic circles stress that “the natural evolution” of the language is taking place.
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Olefir, Hanna, Ivan Deineko, and Iryna Deineko. "Gender Identification in French: from Ideology to Morphology." PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, no. 38 (2020): 32–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2663-6530.2020.38.03.
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The spread of the feminitives (gender-marked nouns) is a modern trend of the language development resulting from the social processes. It is taking place within systemic identification and validation of the woman in texts. The history of sociolinguistic opposition of the French-speaking society to the use of feminitives andtext feminization has significant differences between various French-speaking countries, a subject researched by linguistics, sociolinguistics and geolinguistics. The Canadian province of Québec published its recommendations on use of feminitives as early as in 1979; later they were elaborated, refined and expanded. Swiss Geneva passed provisions for the feminisation of professions in 1988; a respective guide was developed in 1991. Respective Belgian regulations were introduced in 1993. However, all the French-speaking countries recognise France’s right to take any final decision regarding questions of the French language. The country had a waiting attitude and made its first steps towards gender identification in 1984, while the big changes that attracted the attention of the society took place in 1998. Since then detailed revision of the language policy became regular aiming at securing a strong position in the modern world. In 2018, the use of feminitives was ordered to be obligatory in the legal documents. French academic circles stress that “the natural evolution” of the language is taking place.
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Fasold, Ralph, Haru Yamada, David Robinson, and Steven Barish. "The language-planning effect of newspaper editorial policy: Gender differences in The Washington Post." Language in Society 19, no. 4 (December 1990): 521–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500014809.
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ABSTRACTWe examined the effect of general statements against sexist usage in the style manual for The Washington Post. We selected a minor usage pattern that was not the subject of an explicit rule, namely, the difference in the use of a middle initial in references to men and to women. This usage was taken as an index of the possible effect of a general policy statement on newswriting practice. We found significantly less difference by sex in this usage subsequent to the publication of the style manual. We take the difference as support for the effectiveness of language planning in this instance, although the significance of our results as evidence of real equality of treatment remains somewhat problematic. There are different points of view in sociolinguistics about the relative value of quantitative versus more directly interpretive methods. We present in some detail the reasoning behind the use of quantitative methods to support an investigation such as ours. (Language planning, language treatment, language and sex, language and the media, style and usage, forms of reference, statistical methods)
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Saki, Michi. "JALT2014 Plenary Speaker article: Investigating concepts of desire, gender, and identity in language learners." Language Teacher 38, no. 4 (July 1, 2014): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.37546/jalttlt38.4-4.
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An interview with Kimie Takahashi, International Christian University, Tokyo Sponsored by the Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) SIG Over the course of her international career as a sociolinguist, Kimie Takahashi has spent many years working in Australia and Thailand. She has published widely on gender, race, and language learning, which she addresses in her new book Language Learning, Gender and Desire: Japanese Women on the Move (2013, Multilingual Matters). Takahashi is also the co-founder of the sociolinguistics website Language on the Move <languageonthemove.org>. In this interview, Takahashi discusses the motivation behind her research and the concept of akogare and its relationship with second language learning. With many of our students learning English being women, the concepts behind Takahashi’s research is of great interest to any language teacher—male or female. Such knowledge can help deepen our understanding of language learning and of our students. The title of her JALT2014 talk is Gendering Intercultural Communication—Asian Women on the Move. Takahashi completed her doctorate with the University of Sydney in 2006, and is now Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Culture, and Media at the International Christian University, Tokyo. Takahashi’s research interests focus on gender, race, bilingualism, and second language learning and use in transnational contexts.
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Asuncion, Zayda S., and Marilu Rañosa-Madrunio, Ph.D. "Language Attitudes of the Gaddang Speakers towards Gaddang, Ilocano, Tagalog and English." Studies in English Language Teaching 5, no. 4 (November 15, 2017): 720. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v5n4p720.
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<p><em>Language attitudes have been the focus of interest in sociolinguistics for the past decades. In the Philippines, there is a dearth of literature on sociolinguistic studies that focus on indigenous languages and their speakers. To contribute to the literature, this study endeavoured to investigate the attitudes of Gaddang speakers in the northern part of the country towards Gaddang, their native language; Ilocano, the lingua franca of the province; Tagalog/Filipino, the national language; and English, one of the official languages. It also explored possible differences in the language attitudes of the Gaddangs in terms of geographical location, age, gender, socio-economic status, and educational attainment. Using survey questionnaire and semi-structured interview, the study involved 568 respondents. Results revealed that Gaddang speakers manifest positive attitudes towards Tagalog, Gaddang, Ilocano, and English respectively. The study also yielded significant differences in their attitudes with respect to geographical location, age, socio-economic status, and educational attainment except gender. The results have significant implications on the maintenance or gradual loss of their native language.</em></p>
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Dumas, Nathaniel W. "“This guy says I should talk like that all the time”: Challenging intersecting ideologies of language and gender in an American Stuttering English comedienne's stand-up routine." Language in Society 45, no. 3 (May 4, 2016): 353–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404516000233.
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AbstractAmerican Stuttering English (ASE) speakers (or ‘persons who stutter’ in pathological perspectives) have historically had tense relationships with comedic representations of their speech. Mainstream representations pathologize and ridicule stuttering, rather than appreciate it as a legitimate language variety. These depictions also increase non-ASE speakers' ‘possessive investment’ (Lipsitz 1995) in Standard American Fluent English as the dominant language variety. Recently, some ASE speakers have reinterpreted ASE and comedic portrayals of their speech using stand-up comedy. This article analyzes the comedic work of Rona B, an ASE comedienne. Using data on her YouTube channel, I argue that Rona B draws on her intersectional experiences as a female ASE speaker to construct a voice that critiques both the political agendas of anti-linguistic discrimination, which downplays gender, and of antisexism, which minimizes sociolinguistic differences. This study expands on contemporary calls in sociolinguistics that position intracategorical intersectionality as key for analyzing performances on language variation. (Gender, variation, American Stuttering English, performance, stand-up comedy, language ideologies)*
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Zhao, Hui. "Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua." Asia-Pacific Language Variation 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 161–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aplv.18003.zha.
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Abstract This study investigates the perception of the variation of neutral tone, a phonetic feature in China’s official language, Putonghua. Specifically, I explore whether native listeners perceive social meanings such as standardness, regional-ness, status and/or solidarity presumably associated with the low-use, standard use, and high-use of neutral tone, and how gender influences the perception of these meanings. Based on the results of a matched-guise test, I argue that the high use of neutral tone, through its link with Beijing dialect, is possibly competing with the standard, though the latter maintains a higher level of positive meanings. I also note that the low use of neutral tone – associated with Southern China and non-Mandarin varieties – carries more negative meanings. The overall gender differences show that gender prejudice towards women still exists in China. This study enriches our understanding of sociolinguistics in China and calls for more research on language variation in China.
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Smith, Janet S. "Women in charge: Politeness and directives in the speech of Japanese women." Language in Society 21, no. 1 (March 1992): 59–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500015037.
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ABSTRACTThis article explores the linguistic practices of Japanese men and women giving directions to subordinates. Previous research on language and gender across a number of languages has equated the speech of women with powerlessness. The literature on Japanese women's speech would support this notion. It characterizes Japanese female speech as soft, polite, indirect, in sum, as powerless. This presents problems for women who must command. The present study, an extension of my previous work on Japanese female speech (Shibamoto 1985, 1987) centered on women in more typically female roles, examines the directives of women in positions of authority in traditional and nontraditional domains and compares them with the directive forms chosen by men in similar positions. Explanations for the differences found are placed within the frameworks of a general theory of politeness and the culturally specific, gendered strategies for encoding politeness and authority in Japanese. (Sociolinguistics, language and gender, politeness)
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Janssen, Diederik F. "BOY." Boyhood Studies 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 43–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/thy.0101.43.
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This article proposes a linguistic anthropological approach to the notion BOY, drawing attention to diverse research methods including etymology, onomasiology, corpus analysis, semantics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and comparative ethnolinguistics. As a popular and flexible lexical device, BOY may function as an operator on the received nature of manhood (by rendering it contingent on the discourse and narrative of development), but also as a possible aid in its ever-imminent bankruptcy by disengaging its stylistics from essentialist understandings of both gender and life phase. BOY, thus, lies at the heart of discussions about masculinity as it relates to performativity, language, and discourse, but, in important ways, it also exceeds and contests the confinements of gender/masculinity research.
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Azodi, Nazli, and Fateme Karimi. "The Realization of Kinship Terms in Persian and Filipino." Journal of Studies in Education 7, no. 2 (April 14, 2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jse.v7i2.10540.
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Sociolinguistics studies of language forms and functions should be an indispensable part of second/foreign language learning. Family or kinship address terms as an important feature of interface between language and society, can provide valuable sociolinguistic information about the interlocutors and their relationships. In line with the studies of these terms during the past few decades, this paper focuses on collecting and explaining different types of kinship terminology that Persian and Filipino interlocutors use in their conversations. The relevant terms have been collected by observation and interview. The study also highlights the differences between the two languages in using such terms based on social and cultural status. The findings of the study show that Persian is a gender sensitive and a dynamic language while Filipino is a sex-neutral and respect oriented language.
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Martínez, Tulay Caglitutuncigil. "Intersectionality in language trajectories: African women in Spain." Applied Linguistics Review 6, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 217–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2015-0011.
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AbstractDuring the last decades, changing intra-state and inter-state immigrant profiles in Spain has generated an interesting landscape for sociolinguistics research. There has been a shift from temporary migration to permanent settlement, which means that there is an increasing number of individuals who need to speak the locally legitimate forms of language for different reasons. Apart from this, recent statistics indicate that female immigrants’ profiles are also changing, and they are becoming more and more forerunners and active participants in the formal Spanish labour market (Aja et al. 2011). Therefore, this dynamic, ever changing profile of female immigrants suggests that they move across existing boundaries, acquiring and developing their linguistic knowledge to access other forms of symbolic capitals in Spain. Building on my ethnography of two sites in Madrid and Barcelona between 2011 and 2014, I shall explain how African immigrant women become new speakers and how their language learning process intersects with socially constructed boundaries such as political, economic, and linguistic hierarchies and ascribed gender roles.
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Moreno-Fernández, Francisco. "Macroregional sociolinguistics: Uses and preferences on null direct objects in Spanish." Journal of Linguistic Geography 7, no. 01 (April 2019): 46–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2019.5.
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AbstractThis article explores two fundamental dimensions in sociolinguistics: the dynamics of linguistic variation and change in international languages and the exploitation of data proceeding from significant countries. These issues will be addressed through examination of a particular syntactic feature and a possible change in progress: the occurrence of null direct objects in Spanish. It is shown that for Spanish, a widely used international language, social factors have not been decisive in explaining the distribution of the phenomenon under investigation. This study shows that while direct object omission is not conditioned by typical social variables such as sex, age, and gender, it is unevenly spread throughout the Spanish-speaking world: Mexico and the continental Caribbean use it more than other countries, such as Spain or Chile. Besides the relevance of geography, some semantic, discourse, and contextual factors are shown as determinant for the direct object omission. Finally, this paper reflects on methodology, specifically the use of a macroregional sociolinguistic method for data analysis as well as the advantages and shortcomings of a specific data collection technique that capitalizes on technological tools with global reach: the internet survey in an international scenario.
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Sharifi, Amir. "In Memoriam: Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017)." Kurdish Studies 5, no. 2 (October 26, 2017): 172–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ks.v5i2.443.
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This tribute memorialises Professor Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017) a pioneer of Kurdish sociolinguistics, an influential advocate of Kurdish studies, a public intellectual, and a visionary humanist. As a scholar, his contributions are wide and varied and have had a significant impact, broadening our knowledge of the Kurdish history, nationalism, language, media, gender, social structures and movements. He will be remembered for raising and transforming the consciousness of the academic community regarding the rightful place of the Kurdish language and studies. As a revolutionary, Hassanpour played a key role in studying, organising, and leading social movements. He was truly an inspiration to many young researchers and political activists, a heroic man with a lifelong commitment to justice and a new vision of communism.
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Clark, Lynn. "Re-examining vocalic variation in Scottish English: a Cognitive Grammar approach." Language Variation and Change 20, no. 2 (July 2008): 255–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394508000094.
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ABSTRACTThe existing literature on vocalic variation in Scottish English has shown that variation tends to pattern according to the age, gender, and socioeconomic class of the speaker. However, studies that employ these gross social categories are unable to explain the variation that exists within these categories. This article therefore presents an alternative approach. Based on data from 16 adolescents who form a community of practice in west Fife, Scotland, this article attempts to consider both social and cognitive motivations for linguistic variation. The theoretical framework of Cognitive Grammar is particularly well-suited to incorporating sociolinguistic variation, and this article illustrates how an exploration of frequency effects and schematic organization can lead to a more insightful understanding of the patterning of two vocalic variables in a community. This article also explores the implications of these findings for our understanding of the place of sociolinguistics in cognitive theories of linguistics.
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Chatterjee, Anindita, and Anne Schluter. "“Maid to maiden”: The false promise of English for the daughters of domestic workers in post-colonial Kolkata." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 262 (March 26, 2020): 67–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2019-2070.
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AbstractDrawing from a larger ethnographic study, the current article examines, through interactional sociolinguistics, interview and observation data related to English-language tutorials between two employers and their domestic workers’ daughters in two households in Kolkata. The post-colonial, South Asian context represents a site in which such scholarship has been underrepresented (see Mills and Mullany’s 2011 Language, gender and feminism). The focus of analysis is two-fold: it evaluates the existing power structures between participants, and it assesses the degree to which widespread Indian discourses about the upward mobility of English (see Graddol’s 2010 “English Next India”, published online by the British Council) are relevant to the current setting. In terms of power structures, legitimated domination (see Grillo’s 1989 Dominant languages) of the employer over her domestic worker emerges as a salient theme; however, affective attachment (adapted from Hardt’s 1999 article “Affective labor”, published in Boundary; McDowell and Dyson’s 2011 article “The other side of the knowledge economy: ‘Reproductive’ employment and affective labours in Oxford”, published in Environment and Planning) and reciprocal dependencies help to both reinforce and diminish the severity of the power asymmetry. With respect to the applicability of popular Indian discourses that equate English-language proficiency with upward mobility, the study finds little evidence of their relevance to the current context in which the subordinate positioning of gender intersects with social class to compound its constraining influence.
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Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy. "Deborah Tannen (ed.). Gender and conversational interaction. (Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 327." Language in Society 24, no. 2 (April 1995): 276–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500018662.
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Anjum, Rehana yasmin, Fakhra Amjad, Saira Yousaf, and Faiza Manzoor. "Gender Based Linguistic Variations in Urdu Language and Their Role in Suppression of Females." Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 231–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v4i2.132.
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Sociolinguistics deals with linguistic variations such as dialect, idiolect, genderlect, register etc. It deals with ways of using particular languages and the social roles of speakers of these languages. It is the speaker-oriented approach. Genders have different characteristics in the use of language, which lead to the gender differences in language. The present study was conducted to analyze the gender-based linguistic variations (variations at discourse and communication level) in Urdu language. Deborah Tannen’s Genderlect theory is the theoretical Background of the study. She has presented six sets of language contrasts that are used as instrument to analyze male and female conversations. It is commonly believed that women language is more sophisticated, apologetic as compared to men. These differences are called gender preferential differences in a patriarchal society with their own fancies and whims. The hypothesis is that men and women have different ways of communicating, based on male and female perception of the world as they are made of different things and contrasting style. The qualitative paradigm used in this study. Direct observation, interview and tape recording are used as tools for the data collection. Recorded conversation has been transcribed and analyzed to provide data from which these issues have been discussed. The researcher has analyzed Urdu language conversation among Urdu speech community living specially in Sialkot, according to Tannen’s speech contrasts. The data was analyzed manually. The findings show that variations occur due to the use of various linguistic devices, style, topic of discussion, power etc. This study is limited to the Urdu speech community. The limitation of my research is that I observed the language of middle class Urdu speech community not the other classes. In this research, I only highlighted variations at communication level, and delimited all other variations such as morphological, syntactic, phonological variations. Future researchers can study these aspects. The study will benefit the whole society in creation of awareness about non-sexist language to give a psychological identity of females in Pakistan.
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Rafael, Gomes Lomeu. "Family Language Policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism." Multilingual Margins: A journal of multilingualism from the periphery 5, no. 2 (February 6, 2019): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/mm.v5i2.98.
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Family language policy (FLP) has been establishing itself as a field in the past decade. Yet, much of the scholarly debate around family multilingualism has remained within the boundaries imposed by Western-centric epistemologies. In order to address this issue, this article reviews FLP studies published between 2008 and 2017, and discusses accomplishments and limitations of recent publications. The main argument presented here is that a critical approach to family multilingualism might contribute to the development of FLP in an unexplored direction. More specifically, this paper shows how drawing on a decolonial approach allows for an express engagement with debates that have only been marginally tapped into in current FLP scholarship, for instance, the intersectional dimension of social categorisations such as social class, race, and gender. Furthermore, a decolonial approach provides a robust frame to examine transnational practices by reconciling perspectives that tend to privilege either the material basis of the economic relations of production, or the cultural domain as a locus where these relations gain meaning. Finally, a decolonial approach to family multilingualism takes a step towards redressing the extant underrepresentation of southern theories in sociolinguistics.
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Маtsyuk, Halyna. "Pro linhvistychni pokaznyky vzayemodiyi mova – kulʹtura na prykladi analizu polʹsʹko- ukrayinsʹkoho pohranychchya XV-XIXst." Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia, no. 8 (August 31, 2020): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/2299-7237suv.8.10.
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The article is devoted to the formation of a linguistic interpretation of the interaction of language and culture of the Polish-Ukrainian border territories. The material for the analysis includes nomic systems of Ukrainian and Polish languages, which are considered as a cultural product of interpersonal and interethnic communication and an element of the language system, as well as invariant scientific theory created in the works of Polish onomastics (according to key theoretical concepts, tradition of analysis, and continuity in linguistic knowledge). The analysis performed in the article allows us to single out the linguistic indicators of the interaction of language and culture typical for the subject field of sociolinguistics. These are connections and concepts: language-territory, language-social strata, language-gender, language-ethnicity, social functions of the Polish language, and non-standardized spelling systems. Linguistic indicators reveal the peculiar mechanisms of the border in the historical memory and collective consciousness, marking the role of languages in these areas as a factor of space and cultural marker and bringing us closer to understanding the social relations of native speakers in the fifteenth-nineteenth centuries.