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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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Gudmestad, Aarnes, and Matthew Kanwit. "Reconsidering the Social in Language Learning: A State of the Science and an Agenda for Future Research in Variationist SLA." Languages 10, no. 4 (2025): 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10040064.

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The current paper offers a critical reflection on the role of the social dimension of the second language (L2) development of sociolinguistic competence. We center our discussion of L2 sociolinguistic competence on variationist approaches to second language acquisition (SLA) and the study of variable structures. We first introduce the framework of variationist SLA and offer a brief overview of some of the social, and more broadly extralinguistic, factors that have been investigated in this line of inquiry. We then discuss the three waves of variationist sociolinguistics and various social fact

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Shodieva, Maftunabonu. "SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES: UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS." MODERN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH 3, no. 1 (2024): 69–75. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10467195.

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<em>Sociolinguistic approaches offer valuable insights into the intricate relationship between language and society. This article provides a comprehensive overview of various sociolinguistic approaches, examining their key concepts, theories, and methodologies. From variationist approaches to interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and critical sociolinguistics, each approach offers unique perspectives on language use, language variation, and the social factors that influence language. By exploring the diverse range of sociolinguistic approaches, we gain a deeper understa

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William, M. Cotter, and M. Cotter William. "Current research on linguistic variation in the Arabic-speaking world." Language and Linguistic Compass 10(8) (August 23, 2016): 370–81. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.259963.

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Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of inter- and intra-speaker variation have seen the light of day. In some respects, Arabic sociolinguistics is still lagging behind the field compared to variationist studies in English and other Western languages. On

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Scherr, Elisabeth, and Arne Ziegler. "Hic et ibi." Linguistik Online 110, no. 5 (2021): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.110.8101.

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Even though spacious conditions are integral parts of the vast majority of studies in the fields of sociolinguistics and variationist linguistics, they are not always discussed as subject matters per se. The special issue In Stadt und Land – Perspektiven variations- und soziolinguistischer Forschung aims at uniting different approaches that construe spatial categories not as sheer preconditions for the assignment of linguistic features or for the drawing up of maps but as central parameters in the analyses. The contributions thus illustrate one of the current trends in sociolinguistic and vari

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Bjelaković, Andrej. "Whither Variationist Sociolinguistics in Serbia?" Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies 10 (2018): 193–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.18485/bells.2018.10.10.

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Davydova, Julia. "Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation." Journal of Pragmatics 44, no. 8 (2012): 1012–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.04.006.

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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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Wagner, Suzanne Evans. "Including older adults in variationist sociolinguistics via mobile self-recording." Journal of Language and Aging Research 1, no. 1 (2023): 23–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/jlar.2023.1.1.1241.

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Variationist sociolinguistics has made significant contributions to linguistics and allied fields in the study of language variation and change. Yet within this paradigm, older adults remain understudied. There are non-trivial methodological challenges to collecting language data from the old age population. However, the Covid-19 pandemic led to increasing use of remote data collection methods that could fruitfully be employed with older adults. The MI Diaries project’s rich and growing collection of self-recorded ‘audio diaries’ via a custom mobile app demonstrates the success of this technol

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Ünsal Şakiroğlu, Hülya. "Corpus-based variationist linguistics." Asian Languages and Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2024): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/alal.23005.uns.

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Abstract This paper aims to identify what archaic words/word groups were still known and used both among language speakers and Turkish National Corpus (TNC) as an indication of lexical change in Turkish from 1900 to 2020. The present study explores the diachronic variation of lexical change in Turkish by combining the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic approach with the perspective of historical sociolinguistics. The words/collocations thought to be outdated from the original version of “Eylül” novel, written in 1900, were selected and randomly subsampled using a computer-based randomiz

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Dodsworth, Robin. "Modeling Socioeconomic Class in Variationist Sociolinguistics." Language and Linguistics Compass 3, no. 5 (2009): 1314–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00167.x.

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Fagyal, Zsuzsanna. "Old and New in Language Variation in French Digital Media: A Commentary." Journal of French Language Studies 32, no. 2 (2022): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269522000114.

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Abstract/ExcerptPapers in this Special Issue fill a gap in French sociolinguistics by providing a coherent and yet diverse sample of empirical studies on a variety of structural aspects of French digital media. Collectively, their thematic focus reflects a traditional framing of language variation, well known from variationist sociolinguistics, correlating empirically observed phonological, morphological, and lexical patterns with social and linguistic variables, among them age, gender, and genre. In this commentary, I reflect on each paper’s unique contribution to recent sociolinguistic resea

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Ojanola, Raleigh, and Mary Ann Tarusan. "Linguistic variations of Blaan in Soccsksargen Region: A variationist sociolinguistic study." Technium Social Sciences Journal 45 (July 9, 2023): 393–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v45i1.9163.

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Understanding language variations opens a wider perspective to language enthusiasts in boosting sociolinguistic awareness as regards to the different ways of using the language in different language contexts. It provides people from different geographical locations of Blaan to understand the language and its use. The study aimed to describe the linguistic variations of Blaan language in the four (4) sociolinguistic contexts of Blaan in Soccsksargen Region, Mindanao, Philippines such as Sarangani Blaan (SBL) of Sarangani Province, Koronadal Blaan (KBL) of South Cotabato Province, Columbio Blaan

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Liu, Chang. "A critical understanding of second language acquisition from two sociolinguistic strands: The Variationist approach and the Investment Perspective." Journal of Language Teaching 3, no. 3 (2023): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.54475/jlt.2023.006.

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This review explores how sociolinguistics expands our understanding of second language acquisition (SLA) by drawing upon two typical sociolinguistic strands: the variationist approach and the investment perspective. Accordingly, two empirical studies are used to illustrate the contributions of each strand, with Han’s (2019) study adopting a variationist approach and Sung’s (2020) study taking an investment perspective. Through a critical analysis, this paper argues that both theoretical strands contribute to the “social turn” of SLA by providing different insights into the social shaping of se

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Comeau, Philip. "An extension of the comparative sociolinguistics approach for sociosyntax." Linguistic Variation 16, no. 2 (2016): 183–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lv.16.2.02com.

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This paper integrates aspects of both generative theory and variationist sociolinguistics. To compare the structure of two varieties of French (Acadian French and Laurentian French), I adapt the comparative sociolinguistics approach to compare the syntactic structure of these varieties. Specifically, I focus on the effects of a single linguistic constraint across multiple sociolinguistic variables. I argue that such a comparison provides insights into the underlying grammatical structures of the varieties under comparison, differences that may have remained hidden otherwise. To illustrate the

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

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This review provides a state-of-the-art overview of Spanish sociolinguistics and discusses several areas, including variationist sociolinguistics, bilingual and immigrant communities, and linguistic ethnography. We acknowledge many recent advances and the abundant research on several classic topics, such as phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics. We also highlight the need for research on understudied phenomena and emphasize the importance of combining both quantitative and ethnographic methodologies in sociolinguistic research. Much research on Spanish has shown that the language's

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Cotter, William M. "Not-so-strange bedfellows: Documentation, description, and sociolinguistics in Gaza." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 62, no. 4 (2017): 596–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2017.31.

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AbstractArabic is often investigated within dialectological frameworks that emerged in the 19th century, though that work now exists alongside decades of variationist sociolinguistic research. The latter method typically produces abundant data, recorded at very high quality, which lend themselves to being transcribed, described and preserved. This paper presents descriptive information on the Arabic dialect of Gaza City, based on recent sociolinguistic fieldwork conducted in the Gaza Strip with 39 speakers from the wider Gaza City community. These descriptive aspects of the dialect are present

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Mor, Uri. "Two Case Studies of Linguistic Variation in Mishnaic Hebrew." Journal of Semitic Studies 65, no. 1 (2020): 117–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgz043.

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Abstract Mishnaic Hebrew shows considerable linguistic variation, which may be narrowed down to three phases: the original living language, its literary crystallization, and its written and oral transmission. While scholars of Mishnaic Hebrew are well aware of this fact, they generally do not explore it and neglect to utilize tools of variationist linguistics and historical sociolinguistics in order to enhance their understanding of the language and the motivations of its users. This paper calls for a careful integration of variationist and sociolinguistic methods into the research on Mishnaic

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Bleortu, Cristina, and Miguel Cuevas-Alonso. "Sali A. Tagliamonte: Variationist sociolinguistics. Change, observation, interpretation." Onomázein Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción 28 (December 5, 2013): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.28.6.

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Kasstan, Jonathan. "New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics." Language and Linguistics Compass 11, no. 8 (2017): e12249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12249.

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Wilbanks, Eric, and Brooke Wallig. "The Past, Present, and Future of Variationist Sociolinguistics." American Speech 91, no. 4 (2016): 517–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3870174.

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Preston, Dennis R. "Historical Folk Sociolinguistics." Roczniki Humanistyczne 71, no. 6sp (2023): 185–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh237106.9s.

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This paper shows how the canonical definition of historical sociolinguistics as the study of language use fails to consider independent evidence for language attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies (i.e., language regard).[1] One approach to avoiding this limited understanding of use might lie in a historical folk sociolinguistics, in which particular attention is paid to the nonasserted (i.e., indirect, presuppositional, implicational, perlocutionary) meanings, described in Preston (2004) as “metalanguage 3.” Interactions in drama are first justified as “good data,” and analyses of such nonasserte

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Becker, Kara, Sameer ud Dowla Khan, and Lal Zimman. "Beyond binary gender: creaky voice, gender, and the variationist enterprise." Language Variation and Change 34, no. 2 (2022): 215–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394522000138.

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AbstractThis paper promotes a sophisticated treatment of gender in variationism through a large-scale quantitative analysis of creak, a nonmodal voice quality stereotypically associated with women in US English. An analysis of our gender-diverse corpus, including cisgender, transgender, and nonbinary individuals, finds that gender does not predict variation; all gender groups produce high rates of creak. However, gender does interact with style: all speakers use more creak in interview speech compared with read speech, but some groups style-shift more than others, suggesting that gender remain

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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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Gordon, Matthew J. "Book Review: Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics." Journal of English Linguistics 44, no. 4 (2016): 371–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424216668563.

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

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Since Romaine's (1982) pioneering work, historical sociolinguistics has been studying the relationships between language and society in its socio-historical context by focusing on the study of language variation and change with the use of variationist methods. Work on this interdisciplinary sub-field subsisting on sociology, history and linguistics is expanding, as shown, for example, by Milroy (1992), Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg (1996; 2003), Ammon, Mattheier & Nelde (1999), Jahr (1999), Kastovsky & Mettinger (2000), Bergs (2005), Conde-Silvestre (2007), Trudgill (2010), or Her

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Hambye, Philippe, and Anne Catherine Simon. "Introduction." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 49, no. 3-4 (2004): 247–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100003509.

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The identification of varieties (dialects) — which requires relating linguistic features to major social categories such as class, age, gender, ethnicity and geographical origin — is one of the main achievements of variationist sociolinguistics. The task is central to the aims of sociolinguistics in two ways. First, it reveals the presence of structured heterogeneity within linguistic variation. Second, it accounts for the social meaning of linguistic variants: through the definition of bounded “social”, “regional” or “ethnic” varieties, so-called inter-speaker variation is directly associated

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Hall-Lew, Lauren. "Editorial." Lifespans and Styles 3, no. 1 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ls.v3i1.2017.1822.

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It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in the field of variationist sociolinguistics.

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SENDI, Monia. "Sociolinguistique et variation linguistique." Langues & Cultures 2, no. 01 (2021): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.62339/jlc.v2i01.118.

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Nous exposons dans cet article une analyse de la notion de sociolinguistique. Son objectif est d’étudier des variations linguistiques dans les langues en se basant sur l’analyse de la langue telle qu’elle existe en réalité. La sociolinguistique occupe une place primordiale au sein des Sciences du langage et de la Société. Cette discipline cherche à valoriser la dimension sociale dans l’activité langagière. Elle a rejeté les approches de la linguistique structurale qui est enfermée dans les analyses doctrinaires du Cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure. Elle se base sur le refus radi

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Horvath, Barbara M., and Ronald J. Horvath. "A multilocality study of a sound change in progress: The case of /l/ vocalization in New Zealand and Australian English." Language Variation and Change 13, no. 1 (2001): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394501131029.

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It is usual to study a number of linguistic variables in a single speech community. The present study, however, focuses on a single phonological variable in a number of speech communities—the vocalization of /l/ in nine Australian and New Zealand cities—in order to (1) strengthen and extend the quick and anonymous field method by designing an instrument to include all relevant phonological environments; (2) demonstrate the strategic potential of moving from a unilocality to a multilocality sociolinguistics; (3) conceptualize a variationist isogloss that extends rather than displaces the core m

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Flores Morales, Laura Melany. "Variation in noun phrase anaphora: null objects and direct object pronouns." Signos Lingüísticos 20, no. 39 (2024): 8–36. https://doi.org/10.24275/sling.v20n39.01.

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"This paper presents quantitative results on the variation between the presence of direct object clitics —lo(s) and la(s)— and their omission —null object or zero anaphora— when the antecedent is a noun phrase in the monolingual Spanish of Mexico City from a variationist perspective. The set of variables analyzed is related to the features of the nominal antecedent. As will be shown, this variety of Spanish shows a reduction in the restrictions for the use of the null object. Keywords: monolingual Spanish; dialectal variation; accusative clitics; zero anaphora; variationist sociolinguistics."

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Levey, Stephen. "Understanding children's non-standard spoken English: a perspective from variationist sociolinguistics." Language and Education 26, no. 5 (2012): 405–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2011.651144.

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van Oostendorp, Marc. "Review of Tagliamonte (2016): Making Waves. The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics." Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2016): 97–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dujal.5.1.05oos.

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Zhang, Jingwei, Yanyong Zhang, and Daming Xu. "A variationist approach to tone categorization in Cantonese." Chinese Language and Discourse 10, no. 1 (2019): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.18008.zha.

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Abstract This study examines tone mergers in Hong Kong Cantonese from the perspective of variationist sociolinguistics. It approaches the issue of whether Cantonese has six or nine tones by focusing on two ongoing tone mergers: (1) the merger of yin qu T3 and yang qu T6, and (2) the merger of lower yin ru T8 and yang ru T9. Speech data from fifty native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong were collected and analyzed. The change routes and constraint patterns of the two mergers were compared and found to be similar. The results support the six-tone system for Hong Kong Cantonese. This study serves

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Soukup, Barbara. "Survey area selection in Variationist Linguistic Landscape Study (VaLLS)." Linguistic Landscape. An international journal 6, no. 1 (2020): 52–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ll.00017.sou.

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Abstract This article addresses the unresolved issue of systematic survey area selection for large-scale quantitative Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies. It presents a strategy of ‘hypothesis-driven stratified sampling’ whereby survey areas are picked out in a nested, multi-step process on the basis of the configuration of local LL audiences (regarding age, multilingualism, and tourism) and ambient activity types (commercial vs. residential). The rationale for this strategy is drawn from variationist sociolinguistics; and the undertaking is accordingly cast as ‘Variationist Linguistic Landscape

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Santos, Luan Costa dos, and Marilúcia de Oliveira Cravo. "O QUE SE COMPRA NAS FEIRAS E SUPERMERCADOS DE BELÉM: CHEIRO-VERDE OU COENTRO?" Revista ft 28, no. 133 (2024): 14–15. https://doi.org/10.69849/revistaft/ma102024040311014.

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This article deals with the cheiro-verde/coentro variations in the city of Belém do Pará. To this end, the study, which follows the protocols of Labov’s Variationist Sociolinguistics (1972), seeks to understand whether the terms in question refer to the same product, and to this end, a brief bibliographical survey of works in the biological and health areas is carried out, with the aim of disambiguating the lexicons, in addition to understanding the scientific name of the product. In methodologies, the research presents variationist theories, as well as the city of Belém and the places where t

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Moreira, Júlio César Lima. "Sociolinguística variacionista e estruturalismo linguístico: um diálogo." Somma Revista Cientifica do Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí 1, no. 1 (2015): 155–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.51361/somma.v1i1.84.

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This article presents a brief theoretical discussion aimed at beginners in linguistic studies regarding the point of view launched on language by two linguistic models: Linguistic Structuralism and Variationist Sociolinguistics. We emphasize the similarity between the two models regarding the conception of language as a shared social artifact and the result of the convention of a “speech community”. However, based on this point in common between the models, we discuss the differences between the two models regarding the theoretical assumptions that deal with the organization of the linguistic

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Гренобль, Л. "Новые горизонты в исследовании эвенского языка". Северо-Восточный гуманитарный вестник, № 3(48) (25 листопада 2024): 23–31. https://doi.org/10.25693/svgv.2024.48.3.002.

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Вариационная социолингвистика является доминирующей парадигмой в социолингвистических исследованиях, однако ее потенциал в полной мере еще не реализован в изучении языков Российской Федерации. В работе представлен обзор вариационной теории и ее роль для получения более эффективных результатов в изучении языков коренных малочисленных народов, в данном случае эвенского языка. Рассматриваются три волны вариационной теории и вопросы вариативности применительно к эвенскому языку, который распространен в основном в Республике Саха (Якутия). В работе определяются потенциальные вопросы и области иссле

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Rampton, Ben. "Hegemony, social class and stylisation." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 13, no. 1 (2003): 49–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.13.1.03ram.

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Focusing on issues of class identity, this paper explores the relationship between sociolinguistics and Raymond Williams’ view of hegemony as “relations of domination and subordination… [that saturate] the whole process of living…: Our senses and assignments of energy, our shaping perceptions of ourselves and our world” (1977: 109-110). It assesses the kinds of insight afforded in both variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, and then turns to an analysis of London adolescents putting on exaggerated ‘posh’ and ‘Cockney’ accents in situated interaction. Underpinning the contingencies of

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Amorim, Fabricio da Silva. "Educational sociolinguistics: towards a pedagogical model for teaching Englishes instead of English." Entretextos 22, no. 3 (2023): 199–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/1519-5392.2022v22n3p199-215.

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The current global status of the English language as a lingua franca has been running several discussions in the realm of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) (ANJOS, 2019; 2017; SIQUEIRA, 2020; DUBOC; SIQUEIRA, 2020). Accordingly, many research works, mostly those of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) (JENKINS, 2009; SCHMITZ, 2012), corroborate the need for new orientations for TEFL based on native-speaker standards. In this paper, we argue that the insertion of Educational Sociolinguistics into the TEFL reveals to be an advantageous pedagogical convergence: As Educational Sociolinguis

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Wassink, Alicia Beckford. "Sociolinguistic Patterns in Seattle English." Language Variation and Change 27, no. 1 (2015): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394514000234.

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AbstractAlthough it was the focus of several publications by Carroll Reed in the 1950s and early 1960s, English spoken in the Pacific Northwestern United States (PNWE) has received minimal research attention in variationist sociolinguistics. This paper provides the first report from an ongoing sociophonetic study. Data from a single-ethnicity, 25-person subsample of the larger corpus, constituted to explore change in apparent time, clarifies Seattleites' use of key markers of Western speech, including merger of cot /a/ and caught /ɔ/, and the positions of all vowel phonemes in the system. Seve

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Mortey, Favour Mawutorwu Randy. "A Variationist Sociolinguistics Study of Ewe Kente at Agortime Traditional Area in the Volta Region." Journal of Marketing and Communication 5, no. 2 (2022): 86–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.53819/81018102t4096.

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The proud kente cloth has knowledge and cultural heritage which has ceremonial, symbolic and authority about the wearer that is best known and mostly widely recognized of all textiles in Africa. Its unique features are wide and invokes powerful emotions as well as symbolizes the fundamental nonverbal codes ever imagined in Ghana which cuts across religion, ethnicity and instill national pride. The purpose of the study was to establish the unique message kente possesses and communicates to society as well as its status. Most of the existing writers center on textile weaving, tools and technique

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Meyerhoff, Miriam. "Turning variation on its head." Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1, no. 1 (2015): 78–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aplv.1.1.04mey.

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This paper uses variationist methods to attack a descriptive problem: by looking at the distribution of a typologically unusual subject prefix (tem- in realis and t- in irrealis) in a set of narrative texts recorded in Nkep, the language of Hog Harbour (Vanuatu), it explores the extent to which the goals of language documentation and variationist sociolinguistics can be pursued simultaneously. It concludes that a dual focus can benefit both enterprises. We find out considerably more about the nature of subject-verb prefixes in Nkep and about the ways in which the Nkep language handles grammati

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Ferreira, Rafael Padilha, and Aline Jéssica Antunes. "Refletindo sobre as contribuições da Sociolinguística para o ensino de Português como Língua Adicional (PLA)." BELT - Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal 9, no. 2 (2019): 308. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/2178-3640.2018.2.31561.

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This paper aims at listing assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (VS) that are seen as potential contributions to the teaching and learning process of Brazilian Portuguese. Its objective is to find an interface between VS and the Portuguese as Additional Language (PAL) teaching methodology, in order to find elements that contribute to teacher education and to the elaboration of didactic materials. Through a bibliographical review, it was possible to identify that there is a vast production of teacher education and teaching materials in the areas of Sociolinguistics and teaching of Portu

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ÁLVAREZ, ALBA ARIAS. "Sociophonetic Study of the Backed /r/ in the Puerto Rican Diaspora in Holyoke, Massachusetts." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: Volume 99, Issue 9 99, no. 9 (2022): 815–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2022.49.

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This article follows the variationist framework and the theoretical claims of scholars studying the sociolinguistics of globalization to analyse the use of the Puerto Rican Spanish backed /r/ in Puerto Rico and Holyoke (Massachusetts, USA). An examination of various (socio)linguistic factors enables analysis of potential backed /r/ variation and any discernible differences in its production in both settings under study. Results imply that the Puerto Rican community in Holyoke maintains its language as a means to strengthen its Puerto Rican identity.

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DOCHERTY, GERARD J., PAUL FOULKES, JAMES MILROY, LESLEY MILROY, and DAVID WALSHAW. "Descriptive adequacy in phonology: a variationist perspective." Journal of Linguistics 33, no. 2 (1997): 275–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002222679700649x.

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This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refining theoretical models. On the other hand, variationists cannot operate in isolation from theoretical concerns, and can benefit from an evaluation of t

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Gregersen, Frans. "Bernstein-øjeblikket – en kontrafaktisk historie." Språk och stil 34 (February 11, 2025): 5–30. https://doi.org/10.61965/sos.v34i.34510.

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The paper is a written and revised version of a lecture given on the occasion of my receiving the degree of honorary doctor at Uppsala University. It deals with the history and development of sociolinguistics as a discipline and contrasts the two early paradigms competing for hegemony: The code theory by Basil Bernstein and the variationist linguistics, forged and exemplified by William Labov. The argument is simple: We would have had a different discipline if the Bernstein approach had been more successful. First, the discipline would have been more integrated into sociology and probably less

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Cameron, Deborah. "11. GENDER ISSUES IN LANGUAGE CHANGE." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23 (March 2003): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190503000266.

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It has long been apparent to scholars that gender exerts an influence on language change. Recently, however, the patterns of gender differentiation attested in empirical studies have been reinterpreted in the light of current social constructionist understandings of gender. Drawing on recent work in variationist sociolinguistics, sociology of language and linguistic anthropology, this chapter focuses on new approaches to explaining gender differentiated patterns of sound change and language shift, the success or failure of planned linguistic reforms, and changes in the social evaluation of gen

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Zenner,, Eline, Dirk Speelman,, and Dirk Geeraerts,. "Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring variation in the success of anglicisms in Dutch." Cognitive Linguistics 23, no. 4 (2012): 749–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2012-0023.

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AbstractThis paper introduces a new, concept-based method for measuring variation in the use and success of loanwords by presenting the results of a case-study on 149 English person reference nouns (i.e. common nouns used to designate people, such as manager) in Dutch. With this paper, we introduce four methodological improvements to current quantitative corpus-based anglicism research, based on the general tenets of Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Geeraerts 2005; Kristiansen and Geeraerts 2007; Geeraerts 2010; Geeraerts et al. 2010): (1) replacing raw frequency as a success measure by a concept-b

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Kasstan, Jonathan R. "Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages." Language Ecology 4, no. 1 (2020): 73–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/le.00010.kas.

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Abstract The centrality of style is uncontested in sociolinguistics: it is an essential construct in the study of linguistic variation and change in the speech community. This is not the case in the language-obsolescence literature, where stylistic variation among endangered-language speakers is described as an ephemeral, or “marginal” resource, and where speakers exhibiting “stylistic shrinkage” become “monostylistic”. This argument is invoked in variationist theory too, where “monostylism” is presented as support for the tenets of Audience Design (Bell 1984). This article reports on a study

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