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Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
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Northern English Dialects: A perceptual approach [PDF]

, 2007
Perceptual dialectology has the capacity to deliver a great many benefits to the study of language varieties. It also allows examination of the underlying factors in dialect use such as the ‘beliefs, attitudes and strategies’ (Preston, 1999: xxiii ...
Montgomery, Chris
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Linguistic and Stylistic Polyphony of Occasional Journalism

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2019
The article was intended as an attempt at defining a specific press publication in the form of a genre collection. It was the supplement to the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly (issue 29 of 2018) entitled “Festiwal Stolica Języka Polskiego” [Capital of Polish ...
Maria Wojtak
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On the Concepts of narečje and diasystem in Serbian and Croatian Dialectology and Standard Language Scholarship

Slavistica Vilnensis, 2022
The aim of this paper is to present a historical analysis of the concept of narečje (narječje) and diasystem in dialectology since their beginnings on the territory of contemporary Croatia and Serbia until today.
Vuk Vukotić
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Introduction: The (Im)material Spectrum of Manuscript and Print Interaction☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 148-165, April 2026.
Abstract This introductory essay to the special issue on Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print first outlines previous research into different kinds of interaction between manuscript and print. Examples of this interplay include, for instance, the transmission of text and images from one medium into another, the use of ...
Sara Norja, Mari‐Liisa Varila
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The SLOnar System: Informative Labels for Slovenian Dialect Varieties (From Dialect Group to Idiolect)

Jezikoslovni zapiski, 2015
Dialectology work on Slovenian linguistic territory primarily uses ad hoc abbreviations or labels for research points or areas when defining the geographical range of individual linguistic features for efficiency.
Peter Weiss, Karmen Kenda-Jež
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Implicit and Explicit Language Attitudes and Language Attitude Change

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Knowledge of public attitudes towards language‐based diversity can help uncover wider societal prejudices. Nonetheless, sociolinguists are increasingly aware of the limitations of using traditional explicit self‐report measures to gauge attitudes towards linguistic variation.
Robert M. McKenzie
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The Translation History of the Gesta Hungarorum

Hungarian Studies Yearbook
The Gesta Hungarorum (Deeds of the Hungarians) is an important source for the early history of the Carpathian Basin and, more broadly, of Europe. More than 300 years have passed since the discovery of the Gesta, and debates about the identity of its ...
Bátori Gyopárka F.
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La dialectologie et la géolinguistique bougent encore !

La Bretagne Linguistique, 2004
The first twelve issues of La Bretagne Linguistique reflected the study and reflection days of the Groupe de recherche sur l'économie linguistique de la Bretagne, founded in 1984. They were mainly devoted to sociolinguistics.
Jean Le Dû
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