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Onomasticon of a Dialect Speaker: A Lexicographic Project [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2015
The article exposes the conception of a dictionary reflecting the system of proper names of a traditional culture bearer. The dictionary is supposed to focus upon the onomasticon of a dialect speaker retrieved from the oral discourse of one person; it ...
Ekaterina V. Ivantsova
doaj   +1 more source

Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 657-681, Summer 2026.
Abstract As calls intensify for language education to provide authentic exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity—an essential condition for preparing learners to navigate an interconnected world—concerns about the declining status of additional language study reveal an important challenge.
Koen Van Gorp
wiley   +1 more source

Parler de l’intimité avec ses langues

open access: yesCatalonia, 2022
This article proposes to reflect on the category of intimacy in language studies, by focusing on "diglotte" speakers and the singularity of their speech.
Corinne Mencé-Caster
doaj   +1 more source

Word embeddings for idiolect identification

open access: yesCoRR, 2019
The term idiolect refers to the unique and distinctive use of language of an individual and it is the theoretical foundation of Authorship Attribution. In this paper we are focusing on learning distributed representations (embeddings) of social media users that reflect their writing style.
Konstantinos Perifanos   +2 more
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Towards a Thoroughly Kripkean Theory of Proper Name Reference

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 92, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the late 1960s and early 1970s, both Saul Kripke and Keith Donnellan challenged descriptivist theories of proper names, arguing that reference—at least in their case—is basically a historical relation. However, as has become increasingly recognised over the past decade, their pictures differ substantially: when confronted with a token of a ...
Andrea Bianchi
wiley   +1 more source

The Digital Campfire: Ritualized Linguistic Practices and Leadership Among Facebook Group Administrators

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Social media is a central arena for collective life, where communities form, identities are negotiated, and belonging is sustained. Within these spaces, Facebook groups stand out as key sites of community building, and group administrators (admins) emerge as pivotal figures who guide interaction and shape culture despite lacking formal ...
Tal Eitan
wiley   +1 more source

Categorization: Genre, Style, Idiolect, and Beyond

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter addresses the act of categorising music, with a primary focus on the concepts of genre, style, and idiolect as utilised in rock music research.
Braae, Nick, Nick Braae
core   +2 more sources

Deriving idiolectal variation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The focus of this paper is on apparent cases of subject-to-subject raising out of finite clauses in English, which are accepted as (fully) grammatical by a minority of native speakers. The basic pattern involves a bi-clausal structure in which a displaced subject triggers agreement in both the embedded and the matrix clause ...
Danckaert, Lieven   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
wiley   +1 more source

Bioethical language and its dialects and idiolects [PDF]

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 1999
In their search for answers to the relevant theoretical questions on importing knowledge in practical ethics, the authors take an instrumental approach to metaphor. This figure of language allows one to compare language and linguistic variants to bioethics and knowledge.
Garrafa, Volnei   +2 more
openaire   +7 more sources

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