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Kaplunova, Maria Ya. "PROGNOSTIC METHODS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS." Sociolingvistika 1, no. 1 (2020): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2713-2951-2020-1-1-54-62.

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Language policy in multiethnic states includes prognostic aspect as a necessary component for making better decisions within a changing language situation. At present, when the speed of decision-making in all spheres of human activity has significantly increased, there is a need for additional involvement of forecasting methods from the sciences related to sociolinguistics. The article provides an overview of forecasting methods traditionally used in Russian sociolinguistics. In order to increase interest in this aspect, sociolinguists analyze the possibility of introducing key methods from ot

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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 cor

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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 (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 be

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Banniard, Michel. "Causes et rythmes du changement langagier en Occident Latin (IIIe-VIIIe s.)." Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, no. 34-35 (October 1, 2001): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/tranel.2001.2549.

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This paper presents a overview of current trends in a new discipline called diachronic sociolinguistics. This perspective leads to an original retrospective look on a thousand years of linguistic evolution, from classical spoken Latin to Protoromance. The author exhorts romanists to take into account the research carried on by sociolinguists who study speech in interaction with communication settings. He further encourages these sociolinguists to stand back when interpreting variation, that is to apprehend variation in the logic of diachronic language movements. One of the main points defended

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Rickford, John R. "The haves and have nots: Sociolinguistic surveys and the assessment of speaker competence." Language in Society 16, no. 2 (1987): 149–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500012240.

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ABSTRACTA central concern in linguistics is assessing the linguistic competence of individuals or groups. Formal linguists usually accomplish this by the study of intuitions with little regard for observed usage, while survey sociolinguists usually depend on observations – especially the data of “spontaneous” interviews – with little regard for intuitions. In this paper I argue that survey sociolinguists need to make greater use of repeated recordings and elicited intuitions.The existence of this need is illustrated in most detail by an attempt to replicate an earlier implicational analysis of

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Williams, Colin H. "Spatial representation and sociolinguistic synergies." Sociolinguistica 36, no. 1-2 (2022): 231–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2022-0016.

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Abstract A closer interdisciplinary engagement by geographers, ethnographers and sociolinguists has resulted in new thematic issues being investigated and more sophisticated methodological approaches being adopted. The development of advanced IT and AI capabilities, particularly the wider adoption of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), has opened up new means of exploring and representing aspects of human behaviour. Of particular note is the appreciation by sociolinguistics of the various spatial perspectives currently being utilised in sub-disciplines such as studies of the interactions w

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Ostroushko, O. A. "SOCIOLINGUISTIC FACTORS IN PREPARATION FUTURE UKRAINIAN LITERATURE." Educational Dimension 17 (December 27, 2007): 109–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/educdim.6353.

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Author proves that process of schooling of teachers-Ukrainian philologists have to build with paying attention to row of sociolinguistic factors, among their number functional co-relation between Russian and Ukrainian in modern linguistic situation. Future philologist must study bases o f sociolinguists. Educating work has to be turned to forming o f positive stereotyping image of Ukrainian.

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Lewis, Mark C. "A critique of the principle of error correction as a theory of social change." Language in Society 47, no. 3 (2018): 325–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404518000258.

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AbstractThis article assesses the historical failures and limits of the dominant ‘error correction’ approach within sociolinguistics. The error correction approach supposes that social change can be achieved when knowledge is shared by researchers with the public or figures of institutional authority. This article reviews reflections on sociolinguists’ work toward social change, especially those of Labov, through scholarship in language ideologies and critical race theory. From a language ideological and critical race perspective, error correction is limited in its engagement with marginalizin

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Kerswill, Paul, and Susan Wright. "The validity of phonetic transcription: Limitations of a sociolinguistic research tool." Language Variation and Change 2, no. 3 (1990): 255–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394500000363.

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ABSTRACTAuditory phonetic transcription is a stock-in-trade of sociolinguists; it is transcriptions, not actual speech, that form the raw data of much of sociolinguistics. Given its importance, it is surprising that phonetic transcription has rarely been examined by sociolinguists from the point of view of its validity and its reliability — despite the existence of a certain amount of discussion in the phonetic literature. Rather, it has been treated as a pretheoretical notion. In this article, we report an experiment that compares the auditory transcriptions of trained phoneticians with physi

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Rymes, Betsy. "Watch your language! Students as citizen sociolinguists." Phi Delta Kappan 101, no. 5 (2020): 8–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031721720903821.

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Carelessly used language can create offense and miscommunication, so it’s important for students and teachers alike to pay attention to the language they use. Betsy Rymes advocates adopting a practice of citizen sociolinguistics, which involves curiosity about the differences in the way people use language. She encourages teachers to build on students’ curiosity and wonderment about language to start conversations about how the words people use vary according to context. In addition, she suggests that when someone critiques another person’s language use, those “citizen sociolinguist’s arrests”

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Monikowski, Christine. "STORYTELLING AND CONVERSATION: DISCOURSE IN DEAF COMMUNITIES.Elizabeth Winston (Ed.). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 240. $55.00 cloth." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 23, no. 4 (2001): 566–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263101254060.

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In this latest volume of the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series, Winston has included not only discourse analysis of American Sign Language (ASL) but also of sign languages native to Bali, Italy, and England. She offers a fascinating look at the “intricate discourse patterns that have evolved in different languages” (p. ix). Her work should be required reading for all teachers of sign language as well as teachers of interpreters. This book will also appeal to sociolinguists; language use in the community is clearly the overriding theme.

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Likhachiova, Alla. "On the Concepts of Imported Language and Newspeakerism in the Sociolinguistic Context of Lithuania." Slavistica Vilnensis 65, no. 2 (2020): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/slavviln.2020.65(2).51.

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This article outlines the advantages of introducing some new terms to describe the current sociolinguistic situation in Lithuania. Its essential components are the heterogeneity of the country’s ethno-linguistic landscape, intensive internal and external migration and the different types of language practices within the country, which are the result of the first two factors. The term “imported language” proposed by the author of the article and the term “newspeakerism”, which has recently become established in European sociolinguistics, have not yet been used in the works of Lithuanian socioli

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Gregersen, Frans, and Unn Røyneland. "Introduction: Sociolinguistics." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 32, no. 2 (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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Ganuza, Natalia, David Karlander, and Linus Salö. "A weave of symbolic violence: dominance and complicity in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism." Multilingua 39, no. 4 (2020): 451–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2019-0033.

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AbstractThis paper discusses symbolic violence in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism. It revisits an archived recording of a group discussion between four boys about their chances of having sex with a female researcher. The data is rife with symbolic violence. Most obviously, the conversation enacted a heterosexist form of symbolic violence. This was, however, not the only direction in which violence was exerted. As argued by (Bourdieu & Wacquant. 1992. An invitation to reflexive sociology. Cambridge: Polity), symbolic violence involves two fundamental elements – domination and co

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Shaposhnikova, Irina. "Dynamic Models in Sociolinguistics and Socio-Communicative Attitudes of the Russian Language Personality in the Post-Soviet Period." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 3 (November 2019): 24–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.3.2.

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The article focuses on the range of scientific issues which have been studied by sociolinguists who apply dynamic models mainly to the material of the English language. Priority is given to network models and their predecessors – the study of relationships within semantic fields. The author's observations of the circulation of the meanings as they are reflected in the Russian associative-verbal network (hereafter AVN) provide supporting evidence for the links between the dimensions of socio-communicative networks (strength, density, direction of contacts) and the emergence of favorable conditi

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Darquennes, Jeroen, Theo du Plessis, and Josep Soler. "Language diversity management in higher education: towards an analytical framework." Sociolinguistica 34, no. 1 (2020): 7–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2020-0003.

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AbstractLinguistic diversity and its management have become increasingly significant for higher education institutions around the world. Indeed, in the context of a growing student and staff mobility, information exchange, and networked multilateral interactions, the multiplicity of languages used by university stakeholders in more and more contexts has steadily grown over the past decades. A wide range of scholars (from applied and sociolinguists to higher education researchers) have responded with an equal growing attention to this phenomenon. In this paper, we funnel some of the relevant re

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De Schutter, Helder. "Language policy and political philosophy." Language Problems and Language Planning 31, no. 1 (2007): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.31.1.02des.

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This paper provides an overview of the emerging debates over language policy and linguistic diversity within political philosophy. It outlines the larger context of this debate and identifies its protagonists and the main issues at stake in it. In addition, it presents an interpretive scheme for the analysis of the variety of approaches that have so far been developed within this field. This scheme relates these approaches back to two clashes of different language ideologies. The first clash is between instrumentalism and constitutivism. The second clash is between transparency and hybridity.

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Thiers, Jacques. "Elaboration, distanciation, polynomie: naissance et feux croisés de la sociolinguistique corse." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020, no. 261 (2020): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2019-2058.

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AbstractThis article proposes to return to the “birth” of Corsican sociolinguistics and the main notions that fuelled the emergence of Corsican as “language”. The reflection goes back to the development of the 1970s and 1980s in order to better understand the context of the time and the reasons that allowed such a birth. It will also highlight the contribution of the main figures of this period and the constant relationship with Corsican sociolinguists. Two important figures emerge from this dialogue, notably Heinz Kloss and Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi whose theories have been taken up and crosse

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Harris, John. "Towards a lexical analysis of sound change in progress." Journal of Linguistics 25, no. 1 (1989): 35–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700012093.

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Lexical Phonologists have made a number of claims that are directly relevant to the study of sound change in progress, two of which I wish to examine here. First, phonetically gradient patterns of variation are alleged to be controlled by rules which operate outside the lexicon. Second, phonological rules applying within the lexicon may only refer to feature values that are already marked in underlying representations. This paper sets out to test these claims against empirical data of the sort that have been reported in the sociolinguistic literature. While the first claim appears to be in tun

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Šimičić, Lucija. "Rethinking some terminological and disciplinary boundaries in researching language maintenance and shift (in the context of migration and beyond)." Sociolinguistica 36, no. 1-2 (2022): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2022-0011.

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Abstract After more than half a century, sociolinguistic research on language maintenance and shift has developed in different directions depending on the type of speech community it focuses on. The similarities between “indigenous” as autochthonous and “migrant” as allochthonous languages undergoing shift have often been overlooked and the two have been treated differently. Such a division not only reflects a much-debated dichotomy between “old” and “new” minorities in political and legal scholarship, but is also linked to different legal and institutional treatments of such minorities and th

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Wilson, John, and Alison Henry. "Parameter setting within a socially realistic linguistics." Language in Society 27, no. 1 (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

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McKenzie, Robert M., and Dietmar Osthus. "That which We Call a Rose by any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet." AILA Review 24 (December 21, 2011): 100–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.24.08mck.

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Folk perceptions of language diversity often differ from the criteria laid out by linguists and have particular implications for applied/sociolinguists since the collective identification of language diversity largely determines the ways in which individuals regard the categorisation of their own (and others) linguistic uses as belonging to a specific social and/or regional variety. Folk perceptions can thus help define speech communities as well as explain sociolinguistic other phenomena. This paper provides a critical analysis of the existing folk linguistic research into language variation

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Zimman, Lal. "Gender as stylistic bricolage: Transmasculine voices and the relationship between fundamental frequency and /s/." Language in Society 46, no. 3 (2017): 339–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404517000070.

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AbstractDespite the importance of gender differences in the voice, sociolinguists have not paid sufficient attention to the sociolinguistic processes through which phonetic resources are mobilized in the construction of a gendered voice. This article argues that gender differences in the voice—including those influenced by physiology—are best understood as elements of sociolinguistic style rather than static properties. With a focus on transgender speakers in the early stages of masculinizing hormone therapy, the analysis demonstrates the complex interrelationship of the gendered meanings attr

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Ball, Martin J. "The reporter's test as a sociolinguistic tool." Language in Society 15, no. 3 (1986): 375–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500011817.

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ABSTRACTThe problem confronted by many sociolinguists of assuring sufficient examples of a particular variable in their data is discussed, and a pilot study using various different data elicitation techniques is described. The most useful of these appears to be the reporter's test, which is described in detail. A further study is described, which, like the first, is on features of Welsh, and this supports the previous findings. From these studies we have evidence that the reporter's test not only has great predictive capacity, but also appears to produce casual styles of speech. The value of t

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Martin, Assunta. "An endless coded stream." English Today 23, no. 3-4 (2007): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078407003124.

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ABSTRACTA brief look at the debate between sociolinguists and linguists with some examples of euphemisms that have surfaced into common usage offers revealing insights reflecting contemporary social perceptions. Sociolinguists who investigate the role and function of language are not so much concerned with the way language utterances are generated and constructed as with the ways that language is used in society as a means to communicate. Traditionally, linguists steered clear of the murky waters of social relevance and social context in use, believing that it is a study that cannot yield pred

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Durkin, Philip. "Variation in the lexicon: the ‘Cinderella’ of sociolinguistics?" English Today 28, no. 4 (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

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Darweesh, Abbas Deygan. "Language Rights as Human Rights: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Universal Declaration of Language Rights 1996." Issues in Social Science 4, no. 1 (2016): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/iss.v4i1.9588.

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This study addresses a sociolinguistic evaluation of the universal declaration of linguistic rights in 1996. It aims to analyze the basic aspects and motivations of the declaration with reference to the problems that are not dealt with in it. Thus, the current paper adopts the following procedure to achieve its aim: (1) reviewing literature on language rights theories, (2) conducting a qualitative sociolinguistic analysis for each part of the declaration, (3) and discussing the results of analysis with some evaluation of the declaration. This study is supposed to be of value to sociolinguists,

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Drager, Katie, and Jennifer Hay. "Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in sociophonetics." Language Variation and Change 24, no. 1 (2012): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394512000014.

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AbstractAn increasing number of sociolinguists are using mixed effects models, models which allow for the inclusion of both fixed and random predicting variables. In most analyses, random effect intercepts are treated as a by-product of the model; they are viewed simply as a way to fit a more accurate model. This paper presents additional uses for random effect intercepts within the context of two case studies. Specifically, this paper demonstrates how random intercepts can be exploited to assist studies of speaker style and identity and to normalize for vocal tract size within certain linguis

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Schmid, Stephan. "Pour une sociophonétique des ethnolectes suisses-allemands." Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, no. 53 (January 1, 2011): 93–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/tranel.2011.2782.

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Over the last ten years or so, '(multi)ethnolects' – i.e. the language varieties of young immigrants – have attracted the attention of sociolinguists from several European countries. The most promising theoretical model (Auer 2003) distinguishes between primary, secondary and tertiary ethnolects, depending on whether the observed features appear in the speech of the immigrants themselves or if they are imitated by comedians and by youngsters without an immigrant background. The present contribution illustrates the dynamic nature of such 'ethnolectal' features in Swiss German in the light of Au

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Preston, Dennis R. "Variation linguistics and SLA." Second Language Research 9, no. 2 (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 com

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Murray, Thomas E. "Language variation and change in the urban midwest: The case of St. Louis, Missouri." Language Variation and Change 14, no. 3 (2002): 347–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394502143043.

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St. Louis, Missouri, though located in the central Midlands, is a complex city dialectally. Nevertheless, over the past 50 years most dialectologists and sociolinguists have identified the area as primarily a Northern or Northern/North Midland speech island in a sea of Southern and especially South Midland forms. This article is concerned with whether the city's strong affinity for the Northern/North Midland dialect continues into the 21st century. Small pieces of evidence presented over the last generation regarding the evolution of the area's language have shown that different features of it

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Karinatasa, Desy Catur, and Emy Sudarwati. "“You Look Fat in Red”: Fat Talk in the Workplace." OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 15, no. 1 (2021): 99–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.19105/ojbs.v15i1.4509.

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In the Indonesian context, commenting on one's less adequate body size is considered normal. However, the effect it has on the person who is subjected to it is quite surprising. The fat talk phenomenon in the workplace is one example of fat talk case that remains under-researched. This research reflects the phenomenon of fat talk in the workplace viewed from a sociolinguistics viewpoint. In analyzing and gathering the evidence, this research uses a descriptive qualitative approach and citizen sociolinguistics. The data were obtained from the discovery made by citizen sociolinguists in the work

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Cucchiarini, Catia, and Erica Huls. "De Sociolinguïstiek in het Nederlandse Taalgebied Anno 1995." Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 2 52 (January 1, 1995): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.52.02cuc.

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This article provides an overview of the Second Sociolinguistic Conference, which was held in Lunteren (The Netherlands) from 18 to 19 May 1995. In particular, attention is focused on the topics and theories that turned out to play an important role at this conference. The article begins with a comparison between the contents of the First Sociolinguistic Conference (1991) and those of the Second Sociolinguistic Conference (1995). The papers presented are classified according to the topics they dealt with. The categories adopted in this overview are those used on earlier occasions by Muysken (1

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Mohammad, Izzuddin R., and Parween S. Abdulaziz. "Honorifics in Northern Kurmanji with Reference to English." Academic Journal of Nawroz University 9, no. 3 (2020): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v9n3a792.

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Honorifics are elements of language that can be represented by both lexical categories like nouns and functional categories like pronouns. They are respect, formality, and distance- related concepts and they have been of major concern to many sociolinguists and pragmatists. The current work is a pragmatic and sociolinguistic approach to honorifics in Northern Kurmanji/ Bahdinan area with reference to English. Data are collected from Waar TV. program ده‌نگێ گوندى The Voice of Village. Honorifics are identified and classified into categories; then they are explained. Data analysis shows that Nor

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Dashti, Abdulmohsen A. "Kuwaitis’ Attitudes towards Vehicles’ Stickers in Kuwait: A Sociolinguistic Investigation." International Education Studies 10, no. 10 (2017): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v10n10p78.

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Language attitudes cover a wide variety of emphases, and the reasons for studying language attitudes attract sociolinguists. Language attitudes may well tackle issues extend to all sociolinguistic and social psychological phenomena, such as how we locate ourselves socially and how we relate to other individuals and groups. They may also shape our behaviors and experiences. This study investigates Kuwaitis’ Attitudes towards vehicles’ stickers in Kuwait. Data were collected from responses to 17 items - questionnaire and 1 open-ended question aimed at investigating Kuwaitis’ attitudes towards th

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Capossela, Toni-Lee. "Students as Sociolinguists: Getting Real Research from Freshman Writers." College Composition and Communication 42, no. 1 (1991): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/357541.

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Kalmar, Ivan, Zhong Yong, and Xiao Hong. "Language attitudes in Guangzhou, China." Language in Society 16, no. 4 (1987): 499–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500000348.

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ABSTRACTCantonese and non-Cantonese students of the Guangzhou (Canton) Foreign Language Institute took part in a matched-guise experiment, expressing judgments about two samples of speech produced by the same person but presented as coming from two different speakers. In one sample the person spoke good Putonghua (Mandarin), in the other a Putonghua heavily influenced by Cantonese. All judges tended to agree that what they thought was the better Putonghua speaker would have a better chance for social advancement. However, Cantonese judges also showed some positive evaluation of a “heavy Canton

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Snell, Julia. "Critical reflections on the role of the sociolinguist in UK language debates." Language in Society 47, no. 3 (2018): 368–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404518000313.

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Mark Lewis invites us to reconsider the theory of social change that underpins Labov's principle of error correction (PEC), which assumes that change will occur when researchers share their (privileged) linguistic knowledge with the wider public. This is a welcome invitation, for it opens up space for critical reflection on the role sociolinguists can play in public debates about language. As my use of the term critical suggests, I align with Lewis’ position that we must relinquish Labov's (1982) quest for ‘objectivity’ in favour of critical reflexivity. This involves interrogating our own pos

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Miliun, Violeta. "The Code-Switching on Facebook Profiles of Different Genders: The Case of Šalčininkai District." Taikomoji kalbotyra, no. 14 (September 14, 2020): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/taikalbot.2020.14.8.

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This study investigates functions of code-switching based on the model proposed by René Appel and Pieter Muysken. Code-switching is an interesting sociolinguistic phenomenon characteristic to bilingual and multilingual communities. It involves the use of different languages within the boundaries of a single sentence or between sentences in one specific domain or discourse. It is an individual language choice determined by such factors as the topic, the situation, the participants of a conversation, their interrelationship, emotions, and demonstration of one or more identities. On this basis, A

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Van Viegen, Saskia, and Sunny Man Chu Lau. "Becoming Critical Sociolinguists in TESOL Through Translanguaging and Embodied Practice." TESL Canada Journal 38, no. 2 (2022): 199–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v38i2.1361.

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This Perspectives article proposes a renewed vision of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging (TL) stance, grounded in critical sociolinguistic inquiry and embodied practice. A TL theory of language asserts an activist agenda to dismantle mono/lingualism, inviting a more dynamic and expansive view of multilingualism that actively challenges linguistic hierarchies and associated ideologies to recognize networks of meaning distributed across linguistic and nonlinguistic forms. This openness to all resources beyond language commensurates with the emergin

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Johnstone, Barbara. "A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics." Narrative Inquiry 16, no. 1 (2006): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.16.1.08joh.

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Labov and Waletzky’s (1997[1967]) path-breaking description of “narrative syntax” arose in the context of variationist sociolinguistic research, and narrative continues to be an important source of data for variationist’ work. In most of this work, however, narrative is not the object of study. Variationist sociolinguists are interested in the structure and function of sounds, words, and phrases found in narrative data, but they have not typically asked how the structure and function of narrative itself might bear on the questions about linguistic variation and language change that define thei

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Kemper, Susan, and Cheryl Anagnopoulos. "Language and Aging." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 10 (March 1989): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190500001203.

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In the late 1970s Gillian Cohen surveyed research on the effects of aging on language and concluded that “geriatric psycholinguistics is virtually an unexplored territory” (1979:412). In the decade since she reached this conclusion, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, speech-language pathologists, and cognitive scientists have begun to explore this territory and to map a wide range of age-related changes to language.

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Hall-Lew, Lauren, Claire Cowie, Catherine Lai, et al. "The Lothian Diary Project: sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown." Linguistics Vanguard 8, s3 (2022): 321–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0053.

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Abstract The Lothian Diary Project is an interdisciplinary effort to collect self-recorded audio or video diaries of people’s experiences of COVID-19 in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. In this paper we describe how the project emerged from a desire to support community members. The diaries have been disseminated through public events, a website, an oral history project, and engagement with policymakers. The data collection method encouraged the participation of people with disabilities, racialized individuals, immigrants, and low-proficiency English/Scots speakers, all of whom are more likely

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GAUDIO, RUDOLF P. "Coffeetalk: Starbucks™ and the commercialization of casual conversation." Language in Society 32, no. 5 (2003): 659–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404503325035.

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This article examines how so-called ordinary or casual conversational practices in the contemporary United States are constrained and structured in terms of where, when, how, and with whom people choose and are able to interact socially. The focus of analysis is the middle-class sociolinguistic practice of “coffeetalk” – a term borrowed from U.S. popular culture to signal the naturalized conflation of conversation with the commercialized consumption of coffee, space, and other commodities. The discussion of coffeetalk involves research methods including critical analyses of the marketing rheto

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Vandenbussche, Wim. "The pursuit of language standardization research as a mission for true sociolinguists." Sociolinguistica 36, no. 1-2 (2022): 219–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soci-2022-0026.

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Abstract Research on language standardization witnessed remarkable progress over the past two decades. Building on the strong foundations laid by Einar Haugen, the scholarly canon on the topic was renewed, while also addressing a number of shortcomings of earlier theory building. As historical sociolinguistics gained momentum, standardization history faced the challenge of including ‘voices from below’ as they appeared in new and socially inclusive corpora of egodocuments from the past centuries. This implied an increased focus on the formerly overlooked role and presence of non-standard varie

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C.L., Nelson. "BRAJ B. KACHRU’S QUESTIONS." Humanities And Social Studies In The Far East 17, no. 1 (2020): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31079/1992-2868-2020-17-1-16-19.

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In this essay, the author shares his memories of the developing scholarly identity of Braj B. Kachru, the father-founder of the revolutionary linguistic conception now known as the World Englishes paradigm. The personality of the great scholar, stimulated by the social realities he observed and reflected, as well as by the support of outstanding British sociolinguists whose names have been renowned as classics of linguistics, had a revolutionary impact on language studies and teaching

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Blake, Renée, and Cara Shousterman. "Second generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City." English Today 26, no. 3 (2010): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078410000234.

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Within American sociolinguistics there is a substantial body of research on race as a social variable that conditions language behavior, particularly with regard to black speakers of African American English (AAE) in contact with their white neighbors (e.g., Wolfram, 1971; Rickford, 1985; Myhill, 1986; Bailey, 2001; Cukor-Avila, 2001). Today, the communities that sociolinguists study are more multi-layered than ever, particularly in a metropolis like New York City, thus warranting more complex analyses of the interaction between race and language. Along these lines, Spears (1988) notes the sor

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Block, David. "Political economy in applied linguistics research." Language Teaching 50, no. 1 (2016): 32–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444816000288.

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This state-of-the-art review is based on the fundamental idea that political economy should be adopted as a frame for research and discussion in applied linguistics as part of a general social turn which has taken hold in the field over the past three decades. It starts with Susan Gal's (1989) early call for such a move in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, that is, for ‘investigations of the links among language structure, language use, and political economy’ (Gal 1989: 346), and moves from a consideration of theoretical bases to the discussion and critique of concrete examples of

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De Rooij, Vincent. "Problems of (re-)contextualizing and interpreting variation in oral and written Shaba Swahili." Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, no. 10 (April 9, 2022): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.1998.1874.

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During recent years, many sociolinguists have been arguing that talk, or linguistic form, and socio-cultural and linguistic context are to be seen as mutually constitutive phenomena. Context, then, is no longer regarded as something that is simply given or pre-established of which talk is a mere derivation or reflection. In fact, linguistic interaction is now commonly viewed as a dynamic process in which speakers signal to their interlocutors how to interpret what is being said.

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Erdocia, Iker, and Josep Soler. "Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia." Journal of Sociolinguistics 26, no. 1 (2021): 45–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12530.

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