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Marley, Dawn. "A sociolinguistic description of Perpignan." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10926/.
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This thesis reports on a research project conducted in Perpignan in 1988. The object of the project was to discover and describe the varieties of language present in the town, patterns of language use and language attitudes among inhabitants. Perpignan has been part of France and therefore officially French-speaking for over three hundred years, but it is historically a Catalan-speaking town, and Catalan is still spoken there, although it is now a minority language. Several other minority languages are also spoken, due to the presence of immigrant communities, most notably Spanish, Portuguese and Arab. The research took the form of a questionnaire survey, used with a representative sample of the population. The major part of the thesis consists of a presentation of the findings of the survey. It presents the responses of the sample as a whole, and then discusses in greater detail the responses of each ethno-linguistic group. The survey revealed that Catalan, the historically indigenous language of the region, is quite widely known, but little used. 54.5% of the sampled population claim some knowledge of this language, but only 19.2% actually use it regularly. The majority of the sample seems to be well-disposed towards the language on a cultural level, yet see little or no use for it in practical terms. Use of and attitudes towards other minority languages are also discussed, with particular reference to Spanish, Portuguese and Arab immigrants. The study reveals a great linguistic diversity in Perpignan, and a number of conflicting movements and attitudes relating to those languages. There is a widespread feeling that it is inevitable and even necessary that all inhabitants of the town should become monolingual French speakers, yet at the same time there is an awareness of the value of maintaining minority languages, expressed mainly in attitudes towards Catalan.
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Thorne, Stephen. "Birmingham English : a sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402460.
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Ущаповська, Ірина Василівна, Ирина Васильевна Ущаповская, and Iryna Vasylivna Ushchapovska. "Sociolinguistic aspects of coffee brands." Thesis, «Baltija Publishing», 2017. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77498.
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Так само, як використання мови посягає на суспільне життя, елементи соціального життя складають невід'ємну частину способу використання мови. Лінгвісти розглядають мову як абстрактну структуру, яка існує незалежно від конкретних випадків використання, але будь-який комунікативний обмін відбувається у соціальному контексті, який обмежує мовні форми, якими користуються учасники. Мова брендів кави, яка використовується для спілкування з цільовою аудиторією, значною мірою передбачає соціальну значимість брендів та, зокрема, соціальну роль кави.Подобно тому, как использование языка пронизывает социальную жизнь, элементы социальной жизни составляют неотъемлемую часть способа использования языка. Лингвисты рассматривают язык как абстрактную структуру, которая существует независимо от конкретных случаев использования, но любой коммуникативный обмен находится в социальном контексте, который ограничивает языковые формы, используемые участниками. Язык, который бренды кофе используют для общения с целевой аудиторией, во многом обусловлен социальной значимостью брендов и, в частности, социальной ролью кофе.
Just as language use pervades social life, the elements of social life constitute an intrinsic part of the way language is used. Linguists regard language as an abstract structure that exists independently of specific instances of usage, but any communicative exchange is situated in a social context that constrains the linguistic forms used by the participants. The language coffee brands use to communicate with the target audience is to a great extend presupposed by the brands’ social significance and by the coffee’s social role in particular.
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Hannum, Kathryn Laura. "Sociolinguistic Geographies in Galicia, Spain." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469615983.
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Rimmer, Sharon E. "Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative." Thesis, Aston University, 1988. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10279/.
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This thesis begins with a sociolinguistic correlational study of three phonetic variables - (h), (t) and (ing) - as used by four occupational groups - nurses, chefs, hairdressers and taxi-drivers. The groups were selected to incorporate three independent variables: sex (male-dominated versus female-dominated occupations); training (length and specialisation - nurses and chefs being more specialised than hairdressers and taxi-drivers) and location (the populations were selected from two cities - Liverpool and Birmingham). Although the correlational work demonstrates intra-sex and occupation consistency in speakers' choice of linguistic variants (females (particularly nurses) being significantly closer to the prestige norm), it is essentially non-explanatory and cannot accout for narrative dynamics and style shift. Therefore, an in-depth qualitative examination of the data (which draws mainly on Narrative and Discourse Analysis) forms the major part of the analysis. The study first analyses features common to all the narratives, direct speech, expressive phonology and linguistic ambiguity emerging as characteristic of all humorous storytelling. Secondly, three major sources of inter-personal variation are invetigated: narrator perspective, sex and occuptational role. Perspective is found to vary with topic and personality, greater narrator involvement coinciding with a higher proportion of internal evaluation devices. Sex differences include topic choice and bonding in the storytelling sessions. Sex differences are also evident in style shifting, where the narrator mimics the voice of a character in the narrative (aodpting segmental and/or prosodic tokens to signal a change of persona). The research finds that female narrators rarely employ segmental accommodation downwards on the social scale (whereas men do), but are on the other hand adept at using prosodic effects for mimicry. Taxi-drivers emerge as the group with the most distinctive narrative flair, a fact which is related to their occupation. The conclusion stresses a need for both quantitative and qualitative approaches to data; the importance of occupational role, as opposed to sex role per se in determining narrative conventions; the view of narrative as a negotiable entity, which is the product of relationships among participants; and the importance of considering the totality of the communicative act.
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Stevenson, Jeffrey Lee. "The sociolinguistic variables of Chilean voseo /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8365.
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Jamin, Mikael Jan. "Sociolinguistic variation in the Paris suburbs." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529312.
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This thesis investigates linguistic variation, diffusion and change in two suburban towns of Paris (La Courneuve and Fontenay-sous-Bois), using quantitative methods to analyse innovative accent forms presently developing. After an introductory chapter which sets out the origins and objectives of the study, Chapter 2 gives the background to the Paris banlieues as well as a description of the research sites. Banlieues are ideal places of investigation for the linguist interested in sociolectal variation in that they accommodate a population which is relatively isolated from the linguistic norm of the dominant society. As a result of this isolation, a recognisable localised vernacular has emerged. This is in itself unsurprising, as similar phenomena have been observed elsewhere in low-contact contexts. What is particularly interesting here is that this vernacular has emerged in an urban context, generally characteristised by a relatively high degree of sociolectal contact, especially with prestigious varieties. Chapter 3 aims at showing how previous research has tackled the study of sociolinguistic variation in urban contexts. We then discuss the sociolinguistic literature more specifically focused on banlieues. From this, three linguistic variables thought to be potentially interesting are selected. In Chapter 4, the methodology used to obtain the linguistic data is discussed and the social characteristics of the sample are described. We then proceed to analyse the linguistic data collected. Chapter 5 focuses on the sociolinguistic distribution of palatalisation in the corpus. Chapter 6 investigates /r/-realisation and Chapter 7 variation between /a/ and /a/. Generally, the same social group seems to lead the adoption of non-standard variants for most variables: working-class youngsters from immigrant backgrounds. Interestingly, the adoption seems to be spreading to other social and ethnic groups, especially amongst the younger age group of the sample. This diffusion is quantitatively explained in terms of integration and identification with the street-culture which has developed in the banlieues and of the nature of social network ties that the street creates. What is also interesting is that for all age groups and for all the linguistic variables concerned, a generational increase is observed. This in tum suggests that this possible diffusion of non-standard forms in the banlieues might be introducing a change in progress in contemporary metropolitan French.
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Kailoglou, Eleftherios. "Style and sociolinguistic variation in Athens." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/1956/.
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Jabeur, M. "A sociolinguistic study in Tunisia : Rades." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379210.
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Broadbridge, O. Judith. "Southern Alsace : a sociolinguistic interview survey." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285514.
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Bodnaruk, Carl. "The Sociolinguistic State of Alemannic Dialects." Thesis, Department of Linguistics, Department of Germanic Studies, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24679.
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The various dialects of Alemannic, a set of German dialects spoken in South-Western Germany, North-Eastern France, and Switzerland, are spoken by, in general, a decreasing number of people in these regions. However, the amount by which this has decreased varies drastically from region to region. This thesis consists of a study looking at the current usage of the dialects in Germany, a comparison of these statistics with those from France and Switzerland, and an analysis of the possible historical causes for the established disparity. It finds that major events non-linguistic events, primarily political, have caused continuing and self-perpetuating shifts towards standardised languages in France and Germany, and a lack of such events in Switzerland has precluded it from such shifts.
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Marchal, Jodi Ludwig. "The phonological and sociolinguistic analysis of Kurdish /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1328049131&sid=33&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Asif, Saiqa Imtiaz. "Siraiki : a sociolinguistic study of language desertion." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428731.
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Woods, Nicola J. "Sociolinguistic patterns in English pitch and intonation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334882.
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Alahdal, Hassan. "A sociolinguistic description of speech in Makkah." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580399.
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Bouamrane, Ali. "Aspects of the sociolinguistic situation in Algeria." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1986. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=120498.
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Al-Amadidhi, D. G. H. Y. "Lexical and sociolinguistic variation in Qatari Arabic." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356390.
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Abu, Ain Noora Qassim Mohammad. "A sociolinguistic study in Saḥam, northern Jordan." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19387/.
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This is a sociolinguistic investigation that examines variation in the use of two Ḥōrāni traditional features in the dialect of Saḥam in Jordan. The first sociolinguistic variable is (U). Traditional northern Jordanian Ḥōrāni dialects generally prefer [u] to [i] in words such as: zubde ‘butter’ and dʒubne ‘cheese’. On the other hand, the central and southern Jordanian dialects have [i] in similar environments; thus, zibde and dʒibne. The second sociolinguistic variable is (L). Traditional Ḥōrāni dialects generally prefer the dark variant [ḷ] to the light variant [l]. In other words, while the traditional Ḥōrāni dialects often realise /l/ as [ḷ] in words like: xāḷ ‘uncle’ and g̣āḷ ‘he said’, other dialects realise it as [l], and thus: xāl and gāl. These variables are studied in relation to three social factors (age, gender and amount of contact) and three linguistic factors (position in syllable, preceding and following environments). The sample consists of 60 speakers (30 males and 30 females) from three age groups (young, middle and old). The data were collected through sociolinguistic interviews, and analysed within the framework of the Variationist Paradigm using Rbrul statistical package. The results show considerable variation and change in progress in the use of both variables, constrained by linguistic and social factors. As for the linguistic constraints, the innovative variant [i] was found to be favoured in the environment of a preceding or following coronal sounds. The traditional variant [ḷ] was found to be most favoured when preceded or followed by a back vowel. For both variables, the young female speakers were found to lead the change towards the non-local variants [i] and [l]. The interpretations of the findings focus on changes that the local community have experienced as a result of urbanisation and increased access to the target features through contact with outside communities.
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Xu, Weiyuan. "The sociolinguistic patterns of Pudonghua in Duhang." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133576.
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Prieto, Victor Moisés. "Spanish evaluative morphology pragmatic, sociolinguistic, and semantic issues /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010940.
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Kazemi, Ruholla. "Yod Variation in Australian English : A Sociolinguistic Investigation." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126465.
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In various post-consonantal environments, the palatal glide /j/ has been subject to variation and change since the late 17th century. Retention, coalescence, and deletion of the glide respectively account for various pronunciations of the word due [dju:], [dʒu:], and [du:] in different dialects of English. Research in this area has often focused on internal motivations. However, the external motivations that regulate the practice of glide variants in the speech of different segments of communities have been a relatively recent area of investigation. Among other dialects, Australian English is one of the major varieties that has not been formally assessed in this area. Hence, the aim of this thesis has been to investigate possible associations between the glide variants and their emergence in the speech of 48 speakers of Australian English. The audio data for this study were 12 tokens pronounced by the speakers in wordlist, sentences, and a story, and were extracted from the AusTalk Corpus (Burnham, Cox et al., 2011). The results for separate analysis of social variables seem to indicate that the spread of different glide variants in the speech of speakers are mainly conditioned by age. The combination of the social variables shows that glide retention is most frequent in the speech of higher educated old individuals. By contrast, glide deletion seems to be almost non-existent in their speech while more frequent in the pronunciations of the young. Overall, glide coalescence is the most present and has the strongest stylistic consistency in the speech of individuals. Further details and possible reasons behind these observations are discussed in the work that follows.
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Erthal, Cecilia Ines. "A sociolinguistic analysis of bilingualism at Antônio Rebouças." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/24347.
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Khan, Farhat. "Linguistic variation in Indian English : a sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328649.
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The present study responds to the longstanding need within the field of applied sociolinguistics for a better understanding of L2 variability. The study is concerned with the nature of phonological variation in the use of English by Indians. It is an attempt to use sociolinguistic methodology In examInIng a second language situation and to investigate: 1. Whether L2 variability is conditioned by linguistic constraints, and 2. Whether there is any social significance associated with L2 variability. The study is based on the data collected from 44 educated speakers of English in Aligarh (North India). The data was analysed by means of a variety of statistical and computer based programmes. Forty five minutes long interview was conducted by means of a questionnaire. The tasks, ranging from the informal to the most formal, were: (i) casual speech, (ii) short responses or interview style, (iii) reading passage and sentences, and (iv) reading minimal paIrs. There was, of course, no way to eliminate completely the influence of the interview situation, which generally causes speech to be more formal than casual. However, a number of techniques were used to enable the informants to relax and speak more casually. The first chapter deals with the socio-cultural and historical aspect of English in India. The second chapter looks at various theoretical approaches to the study of linguistic variability. The third chapter discusses the research methodology adopted for the present study. The fourth chapter examines the linguistic variants in different phonolog'ical environments and confirms our hypothesis that linguistic variation in second language IS systematic at the level of both the individual and the group. In the fifth chapter phonological variables have been analysed in relation to social demographic variables, such as schooling, education, age, sex and social class. The analysis in the sixth chapter deals with stylistic variation and shows a wide variation in different styles of speech. The seventh chapter very briefly examines intelligibility of Indian English and suggests that a change is probably taking place in Indian English due to social and political pressures within the country, particularly affecting younger generation. The last chapter begins with a brief discussion of the major findings and their social and linguistic implications and suggests ways in which the insights gained from the study can be utilised in the teaching of English as a second language.
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Al-Tahir, H. A. M. "Linguistic variation in Khartoum Arabic : A sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Reading, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374867.
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This thesis 1S a data-oriented sociolinguistic study of linguistic variation 1n the spoken variety of the Arabic-speaking speech community of Khartoum (capital of the Sudan). It sets out to investigate some salient phonological and morphological variables and their correlation with some social parameters. The reciprocal influences of the Classical and the Colloquial Arabic varieties are measured quantitatively in the data elicited through structured interviews from specific social groups whose members were randomly selected. Relation of norms of appropriateness' to actual linguistic behaviour is also investigated. Chapter One provides a brief account on the general characteristics of the linguistic situation in the country, a short review of the previous dialectological studies, the range and social evaluation of the major varieties of Arabic and a discussion of the theoretical problems involved in the distinction of context-specific varieties in Arabic. Chapter Two gives a brief survey of the major approaches to the study of linguistic variation and describes the theoretical framework of the study. Chapter Three discusses the methodological questions pertaining to data collection in the relevant area and describes the method followed in the study. Chapter Four presents the phonological variables and discusses their variants. Chapter Five deals with results and analysis of each phonological variable for each social group. Explanations are attempted as to the different patterning of variables in the linguistic behaviour of the different social groups. A small unquantified data on the 'feminine variety' is presented with reference to the lexical and supra-segmental features. Chapter Six discusses two grammatical features: the future tense marker and the demonstrative. Results and analysis of the study are presented with discussion. Chapter Seven provides a summary of the major types of variation in Sudanese Arabic with discussion of the main findings of the study and some of their methological and theoretical implications. These are then followed by appendices presenting questionnaires relevant to the study.
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Garrett, Peter. "Language attitudes : methods and interpretation in sociolinguistic research." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420328.
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Rajadurai, Joanne. "Speaking 'Malaysian English' : sociolinguistic perspectives of phonological variation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408585.
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Buckingham, K. R. B. "A sociolinguistic study of language in the courtroom." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376505.
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Al-Muhannadi, Muneera. "A sociolinguistic study of women's speech in Qatar." Thesis, University of Essex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292085.
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Elliott, Slosarova Zuzana. "Sociolinguistic variation among Slovak immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33202.
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This thesis investigates sociolinguistic variation among highly fluent Slovak-English bilingual women and also long-term immigrants residing in Edinburgh, Scotland. The present study adds to existing literature on urban migratory experiences (Block, 2008; Forsberg, Lundell and Bartning, 2015; Howley, 2015), comparing cross-cultural variation of immigrants' speech with their local peers (Drummond, 2010, 2012; Meyerhoff et al., 2009), by exploring linguistic and social constraints on language attitudes and accent acquisition among bilingual Slovak immigrants. Sociolinguistic interview data were obtained from 32 women, ages 22-46: 20 Slovak immigrants, 8 Edinburgh Scottish participants, and 6 bilingual Slovak teachers of English in Slovakia. By considering linguistic and social factors that influence Slovak immigrants' variation, in this thesis I ask not just whether and to what extent do local language communities shape immigrants' identity, but also how their identity affects their language attitudes and pronunciation. The thesis pays particular attention to how implicit and explicit language attitudes combine to establish what Block (2008) called a "multidimensional" identity in immigrants. Further investigation establishes a link between identity and production (Redinger and Llamas, 2014; Podesva et al., 2015) by drawing on the variationist sociolinguistic methodologies set out by Labov (1966, 2001, 2006). Implicit language attitudes were collected via a Verbal Guise Task (VGT), during which participants evaluated speakers of foreign and native English accents (Campbell- Kibler, 2006; McKenzie, 2015; McKenzie and Carrie, 2018). Explicit attitudes were collected via a questionnaire designed to elicit attitudes in a casual setting (Dörnyei and Csizér, 2012). The combination of methodologies revealed that immigrant participants in the study held complex attitudes and motivations in relation to their host country. The results for language attitudes suggested that long-term Slovak immigrants experienced shifts to their identity while residing in Scotland, with most adopting a transnational identity that made them amenable to local language communities while maintaining connections with their home country. Their identity represented a degree of integration with Scottish communities, but transnational immigrants often felt separate from both home and host countries as a result. The present study also explores connection between identity and production which is now well recognised (Kobiałka, 2016; Regan, 2016; Regan and Ni Chasaide, 2010; Bucholtz, 2011). Immigrant participants' pronunciations of FACE and GOAT vowel lexical sets (Wells, 1982) were evaluated in comparison to two language groups that represented different standards of pronunciation: native Scottish participants in Edinburgh, with more monophthongal pronunciations (Schützler, 2015); and English-Slovak bilinguals residing in Trnava, Slovakia, whose vowel productions were highly diphthongal and similar to Received Pronunciation (RP) constructions. Comparative study of pronunciations revealed that the immigrants' FACE and GOAT realisations were relatively more monophthongal than the non-immigrant Slovak group, yet more diphthongal than the native Scottish group - effectively making immigrant Slovaks' mean pronunciations separate and distinct from both native standard varieties. However, the immigrant's pronunciations varied widely, and data modelling revealed associations between key social factors and pronunciation. Settings of high formality, strong European and Slovak identities, and intentions to return to Slovakia were associated with relatively more diphthongal pronunciations. Decreased formality, strong Scottish identities, and lack of formal education before immigration were associated with relatively more monophthongal pronunciations. Key findings in the study reinforce observations of multi-cultural identities in longterm Slovak immigrants. Drawing on work that explores variation in language attitudes (Clark and Schleef, 2010) and production in migratory settings (Meyerhoff and Schleef, 2014), I argue that there is a tendency for immigrants to shape their multi-cultural identities in response to linguistic and social contexts. However, internal contexts such as self-definition were equally important in shaping identities, which in turn affected language attitudes and pronunciation.
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Bourgerie, Dana Scott. "A quantitative study of sociolinguistic variation in Cantonese." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1272299172.
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Bourgerie, Dana Scott. "A quantitative study of sociolinguistic variation in Cantonese /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487684245465545.
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Said, Fatma Faisal Saad. "A sociolinguistic study of multilingual talk at mealtimes." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.667873.
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Lanza, Elisabeth. "Language mixing in infant bilingualism : a sociolinguistic perspective /." Oxford : Clarendon press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375118643.
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Falsberg, Elizabeth Laurie. "Ancrene wisse in its ethical and sociolinguistic setting /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9396.
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Chrimes, Adrian Paul. "A sociolinguistic profile of the Gallo speech community." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27781.
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This study investigates the role of the speech community in maintaining obsolescent languages in general, and Gallo in particular. A questionnaire was designed to elicit information from the Gallo speech community in three key areas: speakers’ beliefs regarding their own use of language, speakers’ attitudes towards Gallo and its status, and speaker’s own proficiency in Gallo. The sample for this study was obtained through Gallo social networks which were identified and contacted thanks to the support of Gallo organisations based in Rennes. The questionnaire was administered to a mixture of older native speakers, employed semi-speakers and student-aged learners of Gallo. The results show that level of education remains the main factor affecting speaker attitudes and language use. Speakers with higher levels of education tend to be the ones engaged in revitalisation efforts while speakers with less education maintain a distance from such activities as well as a strong allegiance to the national language. The study also highlighted the division within the speech community concerning orthographic convention. Although a highly distinct written form is viewed by some as essential to distancing Gallo from French, it would seem that the majority of the speech community prefers accessibility over distanciation. This study provides insight into the impact which a speech community can have on the vitality or obsolescence of a variety. In the case of Gallo, it shows how a group of determined individuals can be influential in maintaining an obsolescent variety despite strong and continued pressure from official institutions.
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Hader, Sabah. "Male/female language in Marrakesh : a sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Bath, 1992. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317357.
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Gameiro, Maria Beatriz [UNESP]. "A variação da concordância verbal na terceira pessoa do plural em redações escolares do ensino fundamental e médio: uma avaliação de fatores linguísticos e sociais." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103548.
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Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre a variação da concordância verbal na língua escrita de informantes da região central do Estado de São Paulo, especificamente, Rio Claro. Para tanto, utilizamos um corpus composto de redações elaboradas por alunos da Escola Estadual Zita de Godoy Camargo. Este estudo é baseado na teoria sociolinguística, que considera a língua em seu contexto social. Partindo do pressuposto de que a concordância verbal do português do Brasil é uma regra variável, na qual há a variante de prestígio (marcada com o plural), e a variante desprestigiada (sem a marca de plural) em competição entre si, procuramos não só verificar esta variação como também identificar os fatores linguísticos e sociais que estão influenciando, condicionando esta variação na escrita formal. O uso das variantes foi analisado de acordo com fatores linguísticos e sociais já postulados por outros estudiosos. Dentre os fatores linguísticos, destacamos: a saliência fônica verbal, o paralelismo formal, e características do sujeito e do verbo. Os fatores extralinguísticos analisados foram: o sexo, a etnia, o nível social e o grau de escolaridade dos informantes. Realizamos uma análise quantitativa destes fatores através do programa computacional GOLDVARB 2001. Além da análise objetiva, realizamos uma investigação sobre a percepção dos informantes acerca do fenômeno estudado com base na avaliação subjetiva realizada por Labov (1983). Elaboramos nosso próprio questionário para relacionar a percepção que os informantes apresentam sobre a CV a fatores sociais e linguísticos, o que chamamos de teste de percepção. Tais questionários foram analisados qualitativa e quantitativamente, e demonstraram que fatores como, por exemplo, o número de livros que leem, a produção e “correção” da CV, bem como a expectativa do informante...
This work presents a social and linguistic study about the subject-verb agreement, as it is presented at the written language of individuals from SP state, Rio Claro. For this, we used a corpus composed of essays prepared by students of the State School of Zita Camargo Godoy. This study is based on Sociolinguistic, witch analyzes the language in social context. We assumed that subject-verb agreement of Brazilian Portuguese is a variable rule in the third person, in which formal (with plural) and informal variants (without plural) compete. Therefore, we tried not only to verify this variation, but also to identify the linguistic and social factors that lead to such variation in our region. It is important to mention that the use of the variants was analyzed according to linguistic and social elements, such as phonetical salience of the verb, formal parallelism, and characteristics of the subject and verb. Extra linguistic factors analyzed were: gender, social level and the level of education of the informants. We made a statistical analysis of these factors using the computer program GOLDVARB 2001, which selected the most important factors. Besides the objective analysis, we carried out an investigation concerning the informants’ perception about the phenomenon studied, based on the subjective evaluation carried out by Labov (1983). We prepare our questionnaire itself in order to list the perception that the informants present about Subjectverb agreement (SVA) regarding social and linguistic factors, which we called perception test. These questionnaires were analyzed qualitative and quantitatively, and demonstrated factors such as, the number of books they read, the production and “ correction “ of the SVA, as well as the expectation of the informant and how this influences his perception regarding the SVA. We observed that the subject-verb agreement is a variable rule conditioned... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Austen, Martha. "The Role of Listener Experience in Perception of Conditioned Dialect Variation." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu159532560325774.
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Karsberg, Henrik. "Politeness Strategies - a theoretical framework : Sociolinguistic observations of politeness." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-13348.
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This essay gives a comprehensive theoretical background and then uses observations of how FTAs can be analyzed. The observation, made in a school setting is characterized by an asymmetric relationship between the main participants. The aim is to discuss theories and models of politeness, and how to operationalize them. As theoretical foundation Brown and Levinson´s theory of politeness strategies is used. My conclusions are that theories and models describing politeness can be expressed quantitatively and that there is correlation between my observations and Brown and Levinson´s theory of politeness face threatening acts and the author’s formula to calculate the degree of imposition. My Conclusions from the theoretical background is that the argument of universality for politeness increases with globalisation. There is though a likely development that the multinational class create their own variety of politeness and that the use of this code gives access to power and prestige. At the same time this creates social boundaries and alienation by those excluded from access. A conclusion from my observations is that the social relationship between teacher and student is constant, in the sense that it does not vary depending on the specific question or type of imposition that is currently going on.Titelsida i färg
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Iwata, Manami. "Implying no in Japanese, sociolinguistic analysis of Japanese refusals." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37406.pdf.
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Lawson, Robert. "Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1312/.
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The city of Glasgow, Scotland, is typically associated with violence, criminality, and aggression, and these negative associations impact on the social meaning of Glaswegian Vernacular as used by working-class adolescent males. There have been, however, no studies which have made a systematic attempt to uncover the role fine-grained phonetic variation plays in indexing these associations. Moreover, there have been no studies of Glaswegian which have examined locally constituted groups of adolescent male speakers, and how such speakers use a range of linguistic and social practices in their construction of particular social identities. This study is an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic account of Glaswegian Vernacular which examines the nexus of language, identity, and violence using data collected from a group of working-class adolescent males from a high school in the south side of the city between 2005 – 2008, and aims to uncover whether adolescent males who identified as ‘neds’ or who engaged in social practices considered ‘neddy’ have quantitative linguistic differences from those adolescent males who do not. Through the fine-grained phonetic analysis of the linguistic variables BIT, CAT and (TH), coupled with ethnographic observations, this thesis shows how an apparently homogenous group of speakers use linguistic and social resources to differentiate themselves from one another.
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Ismail, Muhammad A. "Language planning in Oman : evaluating linguistic and sociolinguistic fallacies." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1102.
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English is increasingly being chosen as the medium of education at the tertiary level in education in the Arabian Gulf. In Oman a decision was taken to switch the medium of education in all colleges of applied sciences from Arabic to English. To assist students with the switch the Ministry of Higher Education requested all colleges to establish foundation years with the focus on teaching English. This study is an analysis of that decision from both macro language planning and a micro sociolinguistic perspectives. Three contentions were used to measure the efficacy of the practices in the College of Applied Sciences in Salalah, Oman. These were the native speaker fallacy, the L2 fallacy and the English medium fallacy. The study adopted a case study framework and analysed each of the preceding fallacies with a view to establishing their individual and collective veracity. Data collected included 370 student questionnaires, 15 questionnaires distributed to native speaker teachers and 10 to non-native speaker teachers. There were also interviews with leading stakeholders involved at the College level. The results of the study suggest that of the three fallacies, the native speaker fallacy was not seen to be in evidence at the college whilst the other two were. Amalgamating the findings leads to the conclusion that there are a complex array of factors involved in a decision to switch the medium of instruction from Arabic to English and the establishment of an English foundation programme to facilitate this decision. The results do not corroborate a view of reality that posits that external forces are responsible for enforcing an imperialistic agenda. What the findings of the V study do support is the need for research based decision making, to avoid situations where perspectives devoid of academic merit become the norm.
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Chung, Lung-shan Peter, and 鍾龍山. "Public administration translation in Hong Kong: a sociolinguistic perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47849678.
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Translation studies in Hong Kong have been focusing mainly on the
literary aspect of the discipline. Although huge amounts of bilingual
texts are churned out every year from virtually every government and
quasi-government department and other institution, these products of
translation, as well as the work processes involved, do not receive due
attention of the academia for research purposes. Studies on translation of
this type and nature may have largely been ignored.
To promote academic studies in this field, this thesis attempts to establish
Public Administration Translation as a genre which bears distinctive
features and a production process of its own, although the linguistic
features of this genre do not form part of the present study and are left for
future exploration. To achieve this goal, a general history of Public
Administration Translation in Hong Kong with regard to various grades of
Public Administration Translation service providers has been compiled to
track the development of these grades, as well as the relations among them.
With a view to putting Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation in a
sociolinguistic perspective, a sociolinguistic framework regarding societal
multilingualism types with reference to territorial monolingualism,
bilingualism and trilingualism, as well as diglossia and triglossia, is
proposed for discussing Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation
and its service providers. After detailed analysis and discussion, it is
suggested that Hong Kong’s sociolinguistic situation has always been
evolving in response to its political and demographic development, and the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region seems to be moving towards a
society of biliteracy (i.e. Standard Written Chinese and written English)
and trilingualism (i.e. Cantonese, spoken English and Putonghua) while
Hong Kong’s Public Administration Translation keeps reacting accordingly
to the changes in the sociolinguistic situation of the community.published_or_final_version
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Horvath, Veronika. "Errors and judgments : a sociolinguistic study of freshman composition." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1027109.
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This study attempts to discover and describe patterns of variation in college students' overt attitudes toward a limited set of grammatical and lexical variables, the shibboleths of edited written American English usage. The basic instrument used in the study is a 115 item multiple choice questionnaire prepared by the researcher. Fifteen questions were designed to assess the respondents' social, economic, and demographic backgrounds, whereas the major part of the questionnaire elicited judgments about one hundred English sentences offering the choice between the attributes "good," "bad," and "I can't decide." This questionnaire was administered to 172 students in nine freshman composition classes during the spring semester of 1994 at Ball State University. The study sought to discover and describe systematic relationships between the answers to the first set of questions (extralinguistic data) and the second set of questions (linguistic data) by using various analytical methods and statistical techniques, such as correlation coefficients, chi-square tests, and multidimensional scaling.It was hypothesized that variation in subjects' overt judgments about linguistic variables would parallel the findings of numerous sociolinguistic studies about variation in linguistic production, and hence would pattern along the social and demographic characteristics of the subjects. However, although this study found considerable variation in the freshman students' judgments about the usage shibboleths, it did not find social or demographic correlates to the respondents' judgments.By investigating the nature of the variation in freshman composition students' notions about linguistic correctness, this study attempted to answer questions which have not been asked by traditional usage studies, sociolinguistics, or composition research. Moreover, this study has added support for linguists' claims that the traditional "mistakes" in usage handbooks have almost no empirical basis, even if they remain the favorites of most handbook authors and English teachers.Department of English
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Gibson, Michael Luke. "Dialect contact in Tunisian Arabic : sociolinguistic and structural aspects." Thesis, University of Reading, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312413.
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Al-Mubarak, Ghalia. "An investigation of sociolinguistic variation in al-ʾAḥsāʾ Arabic." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2016. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23575/.
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Nkara, Jean Pierre. "Teke ways of speaking : an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507312.
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Kerswill, P. E. "A sociolinguistic study of rural immigrants in Bergen, Norway." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273084.
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McCormick, Kay. "English and Afrikaans in District Six : a sociolinguistic study." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21805.
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Bibliography: pages 338-363.This is a descriptive study of the use of English and Afrikaans in Cape Town's District Six - a large inner-city neighbourhood, first settled in the 1840s and, by the implementation of a series of laws, depopulated and almost entirely razed during the 1970s. Each language has a history of having been both a lingua franca and a home language in that area. As lingua francas, both languages were used instrumentally by large numbers of people who had little or no concern with the promotion and preservation of the standard dialects of the languages as a part of maintaining their own identity in the multilingual, multicultural context of the city. The effects of this can be seen in contemporary vernacular English and Afrikaans which differ markedly from the standard dialects, and, it can be argued, show linguistic signs of this long period of language contact. The history of language contact was reconstructed through the use of primary and secondary written resources and oral history records. The distribution of socio-economic power and privilege has not been equal among speakers of the two languages in South Africa as a whole. The cross-currents of discrimination and oppression have affected contemporary attitudes towards the two languages and their dialects in complex ways, producing some clear patterns but also ambivalence and contradictions. This thesis examines those aspects of the history of English and Afrikaans in District Six which have a bearing on current attitudes, practices and dialect features in the segment of District which escaped demolition. Interviews and observation were used to investigate the effects of that history and of geographic and socio-economic factors on the linguistic repertoire of the remaining section of the community.
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Nolan, James Michael. "A sociolinguistic analysis of the supervision of female counselors." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1251217945.
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