Journal articles: 'Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics'

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Karimova, Durdona. "Linguistics: importance, history and challenges of sociolinguistics." Общество и инновации 1, no. 1/s (October 17, 2020): 222–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.47689/2181-1415-vol1-iss1/s-pp222-228.

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The article investigates the meaning of the term "sociolinguistics" in modern linguistics, the problems of sociolinguistics, as well as the history of development and the reasons for the relevance of sociolinguistic research. The article discusses the problems of sociolinguistics in the study of the state language of different countries and interethnic communication.

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Karimova, Durdona. "THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BASES OF THE CONCEPT OF SOCIO LINGUISTICS." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WORD ART 5, no. 3 (May 30, 2020): 20–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26739/2181-9297-2020-5-3.

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This article discusses the theoretical and practical foundations of the concept of sociolinguistics and the importance of this field in the study of the impact of society on language. It also describes the views of linguists in this regard, the history of the origin and development of the filed, its connection with other disciplines, and explains in detail the sociolinguistic issues with practical examples.In addition, the terms as macro-sociolinguistics and micro-sociolinguistics and sociolinguistic competence are explained.

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Hymes, Dell. "The Scope of Sociolinguistics." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 263 (April 28, 2020): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2084.

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AbstractAs sociolinguistics continued to develop in the 1970s, members of the Council’s Committee on Sociolinguistics (1963–1979) reflected on the direction and intellectual impact of this emergent discipline. In this 1972 article, Dell Hymes, cochairman of the committee, describes several orientations toward the field among its practitioners, and argues for what he regarded as the most ambitious: a “socially constituted linguistics.” By this, Hymes meant a sociolinguistics that challenges linguistics’ core theoretical starting points of linguistic structure and grammar with a focus on the social meaning and functions of language in context. In relation to our “Sociolinguistic Frontiers” series, Hymes presciently argues that ultimately the field must address how inequality and language intersect, going “beyond means of speech and types of speech community to a concern with persons and social structure.”

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Mesthrie, Rajend. "J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.), The handbook of language variation and change. (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.) Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2002. xii + 807 pp." Language in Society 33, no. 5 (November 2004): 769–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404504215056.

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This is the eleventh volume in the Blackwell series “Handbooks in Linguistics.” Of the previous ten, one was devoted to general sociolinguistics (Coulmas 1997), making this the first in the series to deal with a specific branch of sociolinguistics. For many scholars, variation theory (including the study of change in progress) is the heartland of sociolinguistics, though not everyone would go as far as Chambers 2003 in equating sociolinguistic theory with variation theory alone. As the earlier Blackwell handbook suggests, the field of sociolinguistics is broader than variation theory per se. However, considering the richness of the handbook under review, one can understand why variation theory should hold the high ground in sociolinguistics. The handbook comprises 29 chapters, divided into five sections: methodologies, linguistic structure, social factors, contact, and language and societies.

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Kendall, Tyler. "Corpora from a sociolinguistic perspective." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 11, no. 2 (2011): 361–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982011000200005.

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In this paper, I consider the use of corpora in sociolinguistic research and, more broadly, the relationships between corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics. I consider the distinction between "conventional" and "unconventional" corpora (Beal et al. 2007a, b) and assess why conventional corpora have not had more traction in sociolinguistics. I then discuss the potential utility of corpora for sociolinguistic study in terms of the recent trajectory of sociolinguistic research interests (Eckert under review), acknowledging that, while many sociolinguists are increasingly using more advanced corpus-based techniques, many are, at the same time, moving away from corpus-like studies. I suggest two primary areas where corpus developers, both sociolinguistic and non-, could focus to develop more useful corpora: Corpora containing a wider range of non-standard (spoken) varieties and more flexible annotation and treatment of spoken language data.

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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt. "Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 62, no. 4 (June 20, 2017): 685–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.34.

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AbstractThe paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics. Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about language on usage patterns in collections of naturalistic, authentic speech or text. Because this is what is typically done in variationist sociolinguistics work, I argue that variationist sociolinguists are by definition corpus linguists, though of course the reverse is not true: the variationist method entails more than merely analyzing usage data, and not all corpus analysts are interested in variation. But that being said, a considerable and arguably increasing number of corpus linguists not formally trained in variationist sociolinguistics are explicitly concerned with variation and engage in what I callcorpus-based variationist linguistics(CVL). I first discuss what unites or divides work in CVL and in variationist sociolinguistics. In a plea to cross subdisciplinary boundaries, I subsequently identify three research areas where variationist sociolinguists may draw inspiration from work in CVL: conducting multi-variable research, paying more attention to probabilistic grammars, and taking more seriously the register-sensitivity of variation patterns.

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Hernández-Campoy, Juan Manuel. "Research methods in Sociolinguistics." AILA Review 27 (December 31, 2014): 5–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.27.01her.

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The development of Sociolinguistics has been qualitatively and quantitatively outstanding within Linguistic Science since its beginning in the 1950s, with a steady growth in both theoretical and methodological developments as well as in its interdisciplinary directions within the spectrum of language and society. Field methods in sociolinguistic studies have been motivated by the various research objectives pursued: sociological, sociolinguistic, or linguistic goals. The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) to provide a review of the theoretical movements within Sociolinguistics, and, on the basis of this review, (ii) to explore their consequences and implications on the research methods used in the field. This will be achieved by conducting both a retrospective synthesis of past developments and achievements, and an exploration of the current situation and of potential future developments.

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Al-Tae, Asst Prof Dr Nima Dahash Farhan. "Towards establishing a Major sociolinguistic Theory Interaction Between Content Interactions and Associative Affiliation." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 224, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 51–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v224i1.235.

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When sociolinguistic became the concern of linguists and sociologists alike, being a fertilized land for cultivation, the need became necessary to suggest a comprehensive sociolinguistic theory which deals with sociolinguistic research. Such theory should become a link between linguistics and sociology. The theory should sort out all the problems and phenomena which have been neglected by the theory. Such investigation resulted in many attempts in two dimensions: on one hand, understanding the sociological aspects of language, and on the other, understanding various linguistic aspects of society. Accordingly, many terms and concepts emerged into existence such as (macro and micro, sociolinguistics) which became centers of gravity within the area of sociolinguistics. Different aspects of sociolinguistic appear and increased in the lessons of the area. Such phenomena became more complicated with the development of the societies which later became a big impediment in suggesting a more comprehensive theory, characterized by stability according to necessity as the basic principles are unclear. The most obvious phenomena are language variation and linguistic disparity which cannot be recognized and differentiated clearly and became an area of misunderstanding regarding many sociolinguistic terms. Such terms have been neglected and have not been their due attention. Thus, their views and perspectives became vague, that is why the area requires a thorough investigation to identify many basic concepts in sociolinguistics.

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Wilson, John, and Alison Henry. "Parameter setting within a socially realistic linguistics." Language in Society 27, no. 1 (March 1998): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500019709.

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ABSTRACTThis article considers the theoretical and practical relationship between core linguistics and sociolinguistics in relation to the emergence of Principles and Parameters Theory. Parameters were introduced into core Chomskyan linguistics in an effort to account for variation between languages. However, as we argue – and as has long been known in sociolinguistics – languages (French, Italian etc.) are social rather than abstract products. In this sense, core linguistics may need to pay more attention than it has in the past to aspects of actual variation in order to understand the limits and range of parameters. Thus we argue that dialects of languages in themselves have parameters, and as such may be defined within parametric limits. Here we believe there is something of interest to sociolinguists, in terms both of structural definitions and of overall historical development. In general, then, while variation has always been central to sociolinguistics, it is now central, in one sense, to core linguistics; and here we have the opportunity to explore ways in which sociolinguistics and core linguistics may relate to each other in their interest in variation. (Parameters; variation; dialect; Belfast; Ireland)

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Díaz-Campos, Manuel, Juan M. Escalona Torres, and Valentyna Filimonova. "Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 363–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030547.

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This review provides a state-of-the-art overview of Spanish sociolinguistics and discusses several areas, including variationist sociolinguistics, bilingual and immigrant communities, and linguistic ethnography. We acknowledge many recent advances and the abundant research on several classic topics, such as phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics. We also highlight the need for research on understudied phenomena and emphasize the importance of combining both quantitative and ethnographic methodologies in sociolinguistic research. Much research on Spanish has shown that the language's wide variation across the globe is a reflection of Spanish-speaking communities’ rich sociohistorical and demographic diversity. Yet, there are many areas where research is needed, including bilingualism in indigenous communities, access to bilingual education, attitudes toward speakers of indigenous languages, and language maintenance and attrition. Language policy, ideology, and use in the legal and health care systems have also become important topics of sociolinguistics today as they relate to issues of human rights.

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Koole, Tom, and Jacomine M. Nortier. "De Sociolinguïstiek in het Nederlandse Taalgebied Anno 2003." Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 4 70 (January 1, 2003): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.70.02koo.

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This article presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in the Dutch-speaking community of the Netherlands and Belgium. The overview is based on the contributions to the 4th Sociolinguistic Conference held in March 2003, after three earlier conferences in 1991, 1995 and 1999. Compared to the earlier conferences, the 2003 conference shows an increased number of papers, due to an increased involvement of Flemish researchers. In terms of sociolinguistic subdisciplines, the main developments are a decrease in the research of multilingualism and language contact, and a steady flow over the years of linguistic variation research, and of interaction and discourse studies. The most striking development, however, is the fact that almost half of the papers at the conference (49%) are concerned with aspects of Dutch and Belgian multicultural and multilingual society. Again 76% of this body of research is concerned with education. For this reason the authors survey the present-day relation between sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. They conclude that in the Dutch-speaking community and internationally, applied linguistics has developed into a field that encompasses sociolinguistics and presents a stage for the presentation of sociolinguistic research.

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Grushkin, Donald A. "Ceil Lucas (ed.), The sociolinguistics of sign languages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 259. Hb $65.00." Language in Society 32, no. 3 (June 2003): 422–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404503233054.

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Although it is easy to do so, The sociolinguistics of sign languages (henceforth SSL) is not to be confused with Ceil Lucas's other books, The sociolinguistics of the deaf community (1989) and its sequels, the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series. Whereas the latter volumes aim to present new research in the area of sociolinguistics pertaining to Deaf people and other users of sign languages, the book under review presents almost no new (to those already familiar with this field) information on aspects of sociolinguistic research on members of this language community. Instead, this book should more accurately be seen as a companion volume to her book (with Clayton Valli) Linguistics of American Sign Language: An introduction (2000; henceforth LASL). Like LASL, SSL is intended as a textbook for use in college-level courses dealing with linguistics (or a stand-alone course in sociolinguistics, as was Lucas's intention) of sign languages and Deaf communities.

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Gregersen, Frans, and Unn Røyneland. "Introduction: Sociolinguistics." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 32, no. 2 (October 23, 2009): 185–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586509990023.

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First of all we want to thank the general editors of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics for this opportunity to present to the readers of one of the most important linguistics journals in Northern Europe some specimens of sociolinguistic research. When we were approached by the general editors, we wholeheartedly agreed that this would be a good idea, although – or rather, precisely for this reason – sociolinguists in general have not been keen on publishing in NJL in the past. We have a modest hope that the present issue will change this.

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Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson, and Monika Reif. "The emergence of Cognitive Sociolinguistics." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10, no. 2 (December 7, 2012): 241–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.10.2.01int.

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This paper explores the contexts of emergence and application of Cognitive Sociolinguistics. This novel field of scientific enquiry draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Here, we trace and systematize the key theoretical and epistemological bases for the emergence of Cognitive Sociolinguistics, by outlining main research strands and highlighting some challenges that face the development of this field. More specifically, we focus on the following terms and concepts which are foundational to the discussion of Cognitive Sociolinguistics: (i) usage-based linguistics and language-internal variation; (ii) rule-based vs. usage-based conceptions of language; (iii) meaning variation; (iv) categorization and prototypes; and (v) the interplay between language, culture, and ideology. Finally, we consider the benefits of taking a Cognitive Sociolinguistic perspective in research by looking at the actual studies that are presented in the current volume.

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Carlo, Pierpaolo Di. "Towards an understanding of African endogenous multilingualism: ethnography, language ideologies, and the supernatural." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018, no. 254 (October 25, 2018): 139–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0037.

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AbstractIn a globalised sociolinguistics “[d]ifferent types of societies must give rise to different types of sociolinguistic study”, as Dick Smakman and Patrick Heinrich argue in the concluding remarks of their (Smakman, Dick. 2015. The westernising mechanisms in sociolinguistics. In Dick Smakman & Patrick Heinrich (eds.),Globalising sociolinguistics. Challenging and expanding theory, 16–35. London: Routledge) bookGlobalising sociolinguistics. Challenging and expanding theory. To this end, a basic condition must be met: both target languages and societies must be well known. This is not the case in much of Central and West Africa: with only few exceptions, here local languages and societies are generally under-researched and sociolinguistic studies have focused mainly on urban contexts, in most cases targeting the interaction between local and colonial languages. With regard to individual multilingualism, this urban-centered perspective risks to limit scholarly attention on processes that, while valid in cities, may not apply everywhere. For one thing, there might still be areas where one can find instances of endogenous multilingualism, where speakers’ language repertoires and ideologies are largely localised. The case in point is offered by the sociolinguistic situation found in Lower Fungom, a rural, marginal, and linguistically highly diverse area of North West Cameroon. The analyses proposed, stemming from a strongly ethnographic approach, lead to reconsider basic notions in mainstream sociolinguistics – such as that of the target of an index – crucially adding spiritual anxieties among the factors conditioning the development of individual multilingual repertoires in local languages.

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Reagan, Timothy. "SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE.Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 238. $55.00 cloth." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 24, no. 4 (October 28, 2002): 641–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263102224055.

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This is the seventh volume in the highly acclaimed “Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities” series published by Gallaudet University Press. This volume is the first major attempt to document and analyze linguistic variation in American Sign Language (ASL). Based on seven years of research spread across the United States, including data collected from seven sites (Staunton, VA; Frederick, MD; Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA; Fremont, CA; Olathe, KS, and Kansas City, MO, together; and Bellingham, WA), Sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language is a major contribution to the growing literature on the linguistics and sociolinguistics of ASL. It seeks to “provide a comprehensive description of the variables and constraints at work in sign language variation” (p. xv), building on the existing linguistic literature dealing with ASL. It succeeds admirably, if not in providing the final word on these complex issues, then by offering not only fascinating insights into sign language variation but also an empirical database that is unmatched in its depth and breadth in the field.

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Milroy, Lesley, and James Milroy. "Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model." Language in Society 21, no. 1 (March 1992): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500015013.

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ABSTRACTIn sociolinguistics, approaches that use the variables of socioeconomic class and social network have often been thought to be irreconcilable. In this article, we explore the connection between these variables and suggest the outlines of a model that can integrate them in a coherent way. This depends on linking a consensus-based microlevel of network with a conflict-based macrolevel of social class. We suggest interpretations of certain sociolinguistic findings, citing detailed evidence from research in Northern Ireland and Philadelphia, which emphasize the need for acknowledging the importance of looseknit network ties in facilitating linguistic innovations. We then propose that the link between network and class can be madeviathe notion ofweaknetwork ties using the process-based model of the macrolevel suggested by Thomas Højrup's theory of life-modes. (Sociolinguistics, sociology, quantitative social dialectology, anthropological linguistics)

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Blanchet, Philippe. "“Corsican sociolinguistics”: Key words and concepts of a cross-linguistic theory." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 261 (February 25, 2020): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2019-2057.

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AbstractThis article presents the set of the central concepts of so-called “Corsican sociolinguistics” mainly elaborated by Marcellesi. It also shows the history of their collective elaboration within Marcellesi’s research center and on the Corsican ground. It aims at showing that they constitute a whole coherent sociolinguistic theory which is useful for many sociolinguistic situations and not only for Corsican.

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Nguyen, Dong, A. Seza Doğruöz, Carolyn P. Rosé, and Franciska de Jong. "Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey." Computational Linguistics 42, no. 3 (September 2016): 537–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00258.

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Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language. In this article we present a survey of the emerging field of “computational sociolinguistics” that reflects this increased interest. We aim to provide a comprehensive overview of CL research on sociolinguistic themes, featuring topics such as the relation between language and social identity, language use in social interaction, and multilingual communication. Moreover, we demonstrate the potential for synergy between the research communities involved, by showing how the large-scale data-driven methods that are widely used in CL can complement existing sociolinguistic studies, and how sociolinguistics can inform and challenge the methods and assumptions used in CL studies. We hope to convey the possible benefits of a closer collaboration between the two communities and conclude with a discussion of open challenges.

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Albury, Nathan John. "Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination." Language in Society 46, no. 4 (June 7, 2017): 567–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404517000239.

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AbstractThis article brings the critical turn in linguistics—with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias forlanguaging—under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with thelocal-knowledge turnin sociolinguistics that investigates local knowledge and local epistemologies, held by language users themselves, to understand sociolinguistic phenomena. This article analyses whether and how the epistemologies inherent tolanguage,mother tongue, andlanguaginghold relevance in local metalinguistic talk in Malaysia. Focus group discussions with ethnic Malay, Chinese, and Indian youth reveal that languaging throughBahasa Rojakis already firmly embedded in local epistemologies for communicating across ethnolinguistic divides and fostering interethnic inclusiveness. An essentialised view of language, however, remains vital to any holistic sociolinguistic research in Malaysia in culturally specific ways that do not conflict with languaging. The article therefore supports arguments that we ought not to disregard mother tongues in the interests of critical linguistics. (Critical linguistics, mother tongue, languaging, linguistic culture, Malaysia, folk linguistics)*

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Kramsch, Claire. "A New Field of Research: SLA-Applied Linguistics." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115, no. 7 (December 2000): 1978–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463621.

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Second language acquisition research (sla) is the systematic exploration of the conditions that make the acquisition of a foreign language possible, both in natural and in instructional settings. Its objects of study are the biological, linguistic, psychological, and emotional makeup of language learners and the educational, social, and institutional context of learning and teaching. Whereas language as a linguistic system is studied through the metalanguage of linguistics (phonology, syntax, and semantics), language learning, as psycholinguistic process and sociolinguistic discourse, is researched through the metadiscourse of applied linguistics: psycho- and sociolinguistics, anthropological and educational linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, and composition and literacy studies. These fields illuminate what it means to learn to speak, read, write, and interact in a foreign language, what it means to appropriate for oneself the national idiom of communities that share a history and a culture that are different from one's own. SLA provides the applied linguistic metadiscourse for the practice of language learning and teaching.

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Shaffer, Barbara. "The sociolinguistics of sign languages. Ceil Lucas (Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 259." Applied Psycholinguistics 23, no. 4 (December 2002): 665–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014271640222408x.

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The sociolinguistics of sign languages includes an introduction and six content chapters. In it the contributors present a clear and concise summary of many of the major areas of the study of sociolinguistics. The main purpose of the book is given in the introduction: to present linguistics students with an introductory text that covers many of the current issues and trends in the sociolinguistic study of signed languages. It also seeks to place the study of signed languages within the larger domain of general sociolinguistics. The book is quite successful with that goal in mind. A synopsis of the chapters' contents is presented below, followed by a review of the text as a whole.

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Greenberg, Joseph H. "Proto-Linguistic Variation: A Link between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 15 (November 25, 1989): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v15i0.1756.

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Dorian, Nancy C., and R. A. Hudson. "Sociolinguistics." Language 74, no. 2 (June 1998): 421. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417912.

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Schilling-Estes, Natalie. "Sociolinguistics." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15, no. 2 (December 2005): 295–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2005.15.2.295.

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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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Bob Bracker, Philip. "Linguistic Fields: Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics." Multilingua 37, no. 6 (October 25, 2018): 727–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2017-0076.

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Hernández-Campoy, J. M. "English in its socio-historical context." English Today 29, no. 3 (August 15, 2013): 58–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078413000217.

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Since Romaine's (1982) pioneering work, historical sociolinguistics has been studying the relationships between language and society in its socio-historical context by focusing on the study of language variation and change with the use of variationist methods. Work on this interdisciplinary sub-field subsisting on sociology, history and linguistics is expanding, as shown, for example, by Milroy (1992), Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg (1996; 2003), Ammon, Mattheier & Nelde (1999), Jahr (1999), Kastovsky & Mettinger (2000), Bergs (2005), Conde-Silvestre (2007), Trudgill (2010), or Hernández-Campoy & Conde-Silvestre (2012). These works have been elucidating the theoretical limits of the discipline and applying the tenets and findings of contemporary sociolinguistic research to the interpretation of linguistic material from the past. Yet in the course of this development historical sociolinguistics has sometimes been criticised for lack of representativeness and its empirical validity has occasionally been questioned. Fortunately, in parallel to the development of electronic corpora, the assistance of corpus linguistics and social history has conferred ‘empirical’ ease and ‘historical’ confidence on the discipline.

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Scovel, Thomas, Bernard Spolsky, and Jack C. Richards. "Sociolinguistics." RELC Journal 29, no. 2 (December 1998): 184–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003368829802900210.

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Horvath, Barbara, and David Sankoff. "Delimiting the Sydney speech community." Language in Society 16, no. 2 (June 1987): 179–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500012252.

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ABSTRACTQuantitative analyses of large data sets make use of both linguistic and sociological categories in sociolinguistic studies. While the linguistic categories are generally well-defined and there are sufficient tokens for further definition based on mathematical manipulation, the social characteristics such as socioeconomic class or ethnicity are neither. The familiar problem of grouping speakers by such sociological characteristics prior to quantitative analysis is addressed and an alternative solution – principal components analysis – is suggested. Principal components analysis is used here as a heuristic for grouping speakers solely on the basis of linguistic behaviour; the groups thus defined can then be described according to sociological characteristics. In addition, by naming the principal components, the major linguistic and social dimensions of the variation in the data can be identified. Principal components analysis was applied to vowel variation data collected as part of a sociolinguistic survey of English in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Sociolinguistics, variation studies, quantitative methods in linguistics, dialectology, Australian English, role of migrants in language change)

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Colonna, Romain. "Réévaluer le conflit diglossique en Corse: apports et dépassements de la sociolinguistique du conflit." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 261 (February 25, 2020): 85–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2019-2061.

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AbstractThis article attempts to establish the important links between Corsican sociolinguistics and Catalan sociolinguistics. To this end, it returns to the main characteristics of Catalan sociolinguistics through the notion of “diglossia” and “language conflict” it generates, notions that have largely fed minority studies. Moreover, the terms of the famous Catalan dilemma are clearly stated by the substitution of the dominated language or its normalization as inevitable outcomes of linguistic conflict. The reflection tries to establish the parallels between the various situations and the passage from the Catalan elaboration of a conceptual tooling in a situation of domination to the Corsican sociolinguistic and political fields. Finally, we propose to re-evaluate the initial Catalan conceptual framework in order to better adapt it to the Corsican situation, notably by showing some limits of this framework in terms of diglossic polarities and representations.

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Díaz-Vera, Javier E. "From Cognitive Linguistics to Historical Sociolinguistics." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1, no. 1 (August 5, 2014): 55–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.1.1.03dia.

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This paper focuses on the analysis of the different motifs that shape the linguistic expression of shame and guilt in Old English. Through the fine-grained analysis of the whole set of shame and guilt expressions recorded in a corpus of Old English texts, a network of literal and figurative conceptualizations for each emotion is proposed. On the basis of these expressions, I argue here that body-related expressions (either metonymic or metaphoric) occupy a very secondary role in the Anglo-Saxon imagery of shame and guilt. In clear contrast with this view of shame and guilt as instruments of social control, the Christianization of England implied the spread of new shame-related values and the growing use of a new set of embodied conceptualizations for the two emotions under scrutiny here, most of which have become common figurative expressions of shame and guilt in later varieties of English. The new expressions (e.g. SHAME IS REDNESS IN THE FACE and SHAME IS SOMETHING COVERING A PERSON) illustrate the shift towards a progressive embodiment of the new emotional standards brought by Christianization. According to these standards, rather than an external judgment or reproach, shame and guilt involve a negative evaluation of oneself. Furthermore, I argue here that these onomasiological changes are informing us on the lexical choices of Old English speakers and on the sociolinguistic factors that conditioned the development of new emotional styles (i.e., the different ways feelings were expressed and, surely, felt) in Anglo-Saxon England.

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Ferguson, Charles A. "Directions in Sociolinguistics: Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 263 (April 28, 2020): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2080.

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AbstractA 1964 summer seminar hosted by the SSRC’s Committee on Sociolinguistics highlighted tensions between sociology and linguistics when scholars gathered to address how their disciplines can deepen research on language’s impact on society. For example, sociologists questioned linguistics’ lack of definition for language or dialect while linguists raised concerns about sociology’s reliance on large quantified data. However, by the end of the seminar, the scholars agreed the encounter had raised important questions and opened new paths of investigation through both sociological and linguistic approaches, including the study of language and social stratification, multilingualism, and language standardization.

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Durkin, Philip. "Variation in the lexicon: the ‘Cinderella’ of sociolinguistics?" English Today 28, no. 4 (December 2012): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000375.

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All of the contributions in this special issue respond to a somewhat paradoxical situation: lexis (or vocabulary) is probably the area of linguistics that is most accessible and most salient for a non-specialist audience, but at the same time it presents some uniquely difficult challenges for systematic scholarly linguistic analysis. This is especially the case for approaches that focus on statistics or quantification of data, such as are typical of modern work in sociolinguistics. For this reason, it often seems that lexis is the Cinderella that is excluded from the ball, a topic that modern sociolinguists tend to steer clear of because of the methodological difficulties. This special issue will try to investigate the background to this problem, and suggest some possible solutions.

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Becker, K. "THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC ARTIFACTS WEBSITE: USING MEDIA IN THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS CLASSROOM." American Speech 89, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 218–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2772086.

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Spolsky, Bernard, and Peter Trudgill. "Applied Sociolinguistics." Language 62, no. 2 (June 1986): 451. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/414687.

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Dorian, Nancy C., Marlis Hellinger, and Ulrich Ammon. "Contrastive Sociolinguistics." Language 74, no. 3 (September 1998): 676. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417845.

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Rajagopala, Kanavillil. "Globalising sociolinguistics." WORD 61, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 361–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2015.1112960.

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Ricento, Thomas. "Martin Pütz (ed.), Language choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences. (Impact: Studies in language and society, 1.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1997. Pp. ix, 427. Hb $127.00." Language in Society 29, no. 1 (January 2000): 127–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500241031.

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This is a collection of 21 essays from the 20th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium, held from Feb. 28 to March 3, 1995, at the University of Duisburg, Germany. In the words of the editor of the collection, the authors “explore the relations between social, psychological and (socio)linguistic aspects of language contact and language conflict situations both from a theoretical and an applied linguistics perspective” (x). The volume is divided into four sections: “Sociolinguistic and linguistic issues,” “Language policy and language planning,” “Language use and attitudes towards language(s),” and “Code-switching: One speaker, two languages.” Rather than discuss all 21 articles, I will focus on several whose themes are relevant to a number of areas of sociolinguistics.

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Fishman, Joshua A., and Ralph Fasold. "Introduction to Sociolinguistics, I: The Sociolinguistics of Society." Language 62, no. 1 (March 1986): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415612.

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Spears, Arthur K. "Sociolinguistics of Language: Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Volume II." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2, no. 2 (December 1992): 212–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1992.2.2.212.

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Walters, Keith. "Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives.:Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4, no. 1 (June 1994): 89–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1994.4.1.89.

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Mytnik, Irena, and Mar’yana Roslyts’ka. "Suchasna ukrayinsʹka sotsiolinhvistyka: rozvytok teoriyi i prykladni aspekty doslidzhenʹ u pratsyakh predstavnykiv Lʹvivsʹkoho sotsiolinhvistychnoho oseredku." Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia, no. 8 (August 31, 2020): 149–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/2299-7237suv.8.12.

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The article is devoted to some aspects of the analysis of the interaction of language and society in the modern paradigm. Its results relate to the formation of the content of such categories as “Ukrainian sociolinguistic tradition”, “periods of the development of knowledge about the social nature of language”, “sociological direction in Ukrainian linguistics”, “codification”, “codification on a folk basis”, “asymmetric communication situation”, “social - individual nature of family communication”, “social nature of a name”, “social functions of the Ukrainian language in the church”, “conversion to Orthodoxy of Greek Catholics”, “Ukrainization in the 20-30s of the twentieth century”. Researchers also analyze modern aspects of language-nation interaction, language-national security, the concept of “institutional language management”, “language discrimination”, “hate speech as a form of discursive discrimination”, “linguistic landscape”, informal names in the socio-group “ students”, communication in the socio-group “political elite”, etc. In general, the results obtained in the works of representatives of Lviv sociolinguistic circle contribute to the development of the terminological system and the categorical base of historical, theoretical, applied and cognitive sociolinguistics.

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Preston, Dennis R. "Variation linguistics and SLA." Second Language Research 9, no. 2 (June 1993): 153–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026765839300900205.

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Sociolinguistics (here called variationist linguistics) has been misunderstood and misrepresented in second language acquistion (SLA) research. In spite of that, several productive studies (many of which use the VARBRUL statistical program) have made significant contributions to our understandings of variation in SLA data, contributions which touch on the linguistic and not the social concerns of such data. The failure of SLA researchers who belong to the so-called 'dominant paradigm' (or Chomskyan or Universal Grammar (UG) research programme) to realize that belief in a so-called variable competence is not a prerequisite to variation studies has been particularly harmful. On the other hand, the failure of sociolinguists to take psycholinguistic matters seriously has been another serious drawback to interfield co-operation; a summary of a plausible variationist psycholinguistics (within an SLA setting and allowing UG interpretation) is provided.

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Syarif, Hermawati. "LINGUISTICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION." Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa 10, no. 1 (July 3, 2016): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/ld.v10i1.6328.

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Linguistics as the scientific study of language has very crucial role in running language instruction. Changes in language teaching-learning method reflect the development of linguistic theories. This paper describes how the three broad views of linguistic theories, namely traditional grammar, generative grammar, and functional grammar work in relation to English language teaching and learning. Since both linguistics and language learning have the same subject to talk about, the knowledge of the language, then, is the core. Linguistic features analyzed are on the levels of Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Discourse as the basic components, supported by Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics. In relation to language teaching and learning, especially English, such knowledge on the English language gives learners the chance to apply in social communication and in any occasion. The use depends on the viewing of linguistic theories (English) in certain era, which reflects the need of learners in using English. It is assumed that the more linguistic competence someone has, the easier he/she can run his/her instructional activities. As the consequence, in the English language learning, the syllabus designer should notify the mentioned levels of linguistic components while constructing English instructional materials, methods, and evaluation based on the stage of learners to avoid misunderstanding in use. In this case, English instructors/teachers should also update their linguistic competence, especially on Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic points of view. Key words/phrases: linguistics, English, language instruction, linguistic competence

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S. Makarova, Tatiana, and Marina A. Khlybova. "DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN THE CONCEPT OF SOCIOHUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 6 (December 22, 2019): 900–905. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.76135.

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Purpose of the study: The aim of the scientific work is to develop a new theory of interdisciplinary discourse based on social and humanitarian knowledge. Today, there are many interpretations of the concept of discourse. This causes certain difficulties in its interpretation. Presentation of the discourse within the multidimensional socio-humanitarian category will allow us to generalize and systematize various approaches to its study, to reveal the sociolinguistic features of the mental-linguistic product in the future integration of social and humanitarian disciplines. Methodology: The integrative socio-humanitarian theory of discourse analysis highlights the subjective-objective nature of discourse and actualizes the structuralist, poststructuralist, cognitive approaches and its study. The sociolinguistic concept of discourse analysis focuses on the method of synchronous diachronic study of discourse, a descriptive method of discourse analysis, and a comparative historical discourse analysis method. Main findings: The study found that the theory of discourse, based on a number of humanitarian disciplines (philosophy, sociolinguistics, linguistics), indicates a transformation of the concept of discourse, as well as methods of discourse analysis. A multi-faceted humanitarian concept of discourse analysis is positioned in the post-structuralist, logical-philosophical, sociolinguistic vein. Applications of this study: The presented integrative interdisciplinary theory of discourse will serve as an impetus for scientific research carried out in the framework of sociolinguistic knowledge. The ontological methodology of discourse analysis, combining the features of structuralism, post-structuralism, cognitivism, is of great practical importance in philosophy, linguistics of the text, communication theory, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics. Novelty/Originality of this study: In the social sciences, there is no single understanding of the concept of discourse. Due to the variability of this concept, various theories of discourse analysis are put forward. For the first time in scientific work, the theory of discourse analysis summarizes the socio-humanitarian theories of discourse (structuralism, poststructuralism, cognitivism). It is demonstrated as a comprehensive research method that allows you to explicate a single utterance, text, as well as cognitive-communicative (speech-cognitive) activity.

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Hovorun, Cyril. "Patristics and Sociolinguistics." Scrinium 16, no. 1 (October 19, 2020): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160a01.

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Abstract The paper suggests a new hermeneutical take on receptive patristics. Receptive patristics means here the ways in which patristic texts are perceived in the community of patristic scholars and in ecclesiastical communities. The perceptions of the patristic materials that these two kinds of communities demonstrate are not always convergent. Their divergence can be explained on the basis of the distinction between normative linguistics and sociolinguistics. Ecclesiastical communities tend to treat the language of the Fathers and Mothers of the church in coherence with the way in which the proponents of normative linguistics treat the phenomenon of language. Patristic scholars, in contrast, usually treat them along the line of sociolinguistics. The approach to the language, which is applied by sociolinguistics, if adopted by ecclesiastical communities, could lead to a better understanding between them. It could foster the ecumenical rapprochement between confessional traditions, especially if they are based on patristic identities, such as in the case of Byzantine and Oriental churches. The academic method of sociolinguistics, thus, can be applied to the ecumenical studies and can positively contribute to practical ecumenism.

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Robinson, Justyna A. "A gay paper: why should sociolinguistics bother with semantics?" English Today 28, no. 4 (December 2012): 38–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000399.

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The study of meaning and changes in meaning has enjoyed varying levels of popularity within linguistics. There have been periods during which the exploration of meaning was of prime importance. For instance, in the late 19th century scholars considered the exploration of the etymology of words to be crucial in their quest to find the ‘true’ meaning of lexemes (Geeraerts, 2010; Malkiel, 1993). There have also been periods where semantic analysis was considered redundant to linguistic investigation (Hockett, 1954: 152). In the past 20–30 years semantics has enjoyed a period of revival. This has been mainly led by the advances in cognitive linguistics (and to some extent, historical linguistics) as well by the innovations associated with the development of electronic corpora and computational methods for extracting and tracing changes in the behaviour of the lexicon (cf. Geeraerts, 2010: 168ff, 261ff). However, there are still areas of linguistics which hardly involve lexis in their theoretical and epistemological considerations. One such area is sociolinguistics.

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De Beaugrande, Robert. "Linguistics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics: Ideal language versus real language." Journal of Sociolinguistics 3, no. 1 (February 1999): 128–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9481.00068.

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Zuppardi, Maria Carolina. "Review: Hansen. 2018. Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics." Corpora 15, no. 1 (April 2020): 121–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0188.

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