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Unveiling the spectrum of Arabic offensive language: Taxonomy and insights. [PDF]

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Liebeskind C, Shrem YH, Litvak M, Vanetik N.   +3 more
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Bridging the gap(s): The role of style in language change linked to the broadcast media [PDF]

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Stuart-Smith, Jane
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Sociolinguistic Perspectives On Register

The Modern Language Journal, 1994
Abstract Functional linguists, sociolinguists, and anthropological linguists have long argued that language by nature is communicative, social, and interactional. Many thus advocate a socially constituted linguistics, one that takes the language repertoire of a community to be an elemental observation about language.
Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan
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The Sociolinguistic Registers of ‘Malaysian English’

GLOCAL Conference Proceedings, 2020
The interplay of four standard languages and a number of spoken languages makes Malaysia an interesting case of societal multilingualism. There is extensive convergence between the spoken varieties. ‘Malaysian English’ (ME) has developed its own structures which can be shown to copy structures of the mother tongues of the speakers at all levels of ...
Ralf Vollmann, Soon Tek Wooi
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Sociolinguistic Variation in Zulu: Contemporary Codes and Registers

Language Matters, 1997
Abstract This paper examines variation in Zulu in the Greater Durban Area (GDA). Certain social networks are identified and the language varieties generated by these networks are examined. The social context and function of the language varieties spoken in eduational institutions, isiGura, in shebeens, isiThaveni, and by soccer enthusiasts, isiNgura ...
Phyllis Zungu, Lawrie Barnes
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Genres, Registers and Sociolinguistics

World Englishes, 1997
The 1990s have seen the rapid expansion of the use of genre analysis in educational contexts, especially in the teaching of English for Academic Purposes. In the aim of maintaining a dialogue between theory and application during this growth period, unities and distinctions between genre analysis and register analysis as practices, and between genre ...
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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1995
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register. Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 385 pp.
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Switching codes and registers: An analysis of heritage Arabic speakers’ sociolinguistic competence

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2016
Aims: This study focuses on heritage speakers’ ability to use their Arabic varieties and English in the construction of narratives of personal experience. This is critical because English, Colloquial Arabic (CA), and Standard Arabic (SA) are part of the sociolinguistic reality of the families and communities in which many heritage Arabic speakers live.
Abdulkafi Albirini, Brahim Chakrani
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Register and Forms of Address in Costa Rica: Sociolinguistic Realities and Pedagogical Implications

Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This article reports the findings of sociolinguistic research investigating the use of second-person singular pronouns in Costa Rica. The study was carried out onsite and involved 132 interviewees from all seven provinces of the country. These subjects reacted to scenarios in which they had to choose their preferred pronoun of use (usted, vos, or tu ...
Barbara C. Schmidt-Rinehart, Jean W. LeLoup   +1 more
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A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF STYLES, REGISTERS, AND VARIETIES IN HOT MAROC

Romano-Arabica
In Hot Maroc (2016), Yassin Adnan, a Moroccan author and journalist, reconstructs through the literary fiction the political and social changes of contemporary Morocco, from the end of the reign of Hassan II until today. Through the eyes of the main character, Raḥḥāl, the reader discovers both the social jungle of Marrakesh and the digital Moroccan ...
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