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Cadernos de Pesquisa, 2013 Esta pesquisa trata do uso dos pronomes tu, você e a gente como estratégia de indeterminação do sujeito no português falado no Maranhão. Analisou-se, com base nos princípios teórico-metodológicos da Sociolinguística Variacionista o falar de pessoas de 11
Alana Brito Barbosa +1 more
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Examining the relationship between language divergence and word-of-mouth intentions [PDF]
, 2014 More than half the countries in the world are multilingual, and more than half the world’s consumers speak more than one language. Thus, bilingual consumers often receive services provided in a second or nonnative language.
Holmqvist, Jonas, Van Vaerenbergh, Yves
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Gender identity and lexical variation in social media [PDF]
Journal of Sociolinguistics 18 (2014) 135-160, 2012 We present a study of the relationship between gender, linguistic style, and social networks, using a novel corpus of 14,000 Twitter users. Prior quantitative work on gender often treats this social variable as a female/male binary; we argue for a more nuanced approach.
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Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]
, 2013 The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
Allen +47 more
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Characterizing Sociolinguistic Variation in the Competing Vaccination Communities [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Public health practitioners and policy makers grapple with the challenge of devising effective message-based interventions for debunking public health misinformation in cyber communities. "Framing" and "personalization" of the message is one of the key features for devising a persuasive messaging strategy.
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Socioeconomic Dependencies of Linguistic Patterns in Twitter: A Multivariate Analysis [PDF]
, 2018 Our usage of language is not solely reliant on cognition but is arguably determined by myriad external factors leading to a global variability of linguistic patterns. This issue, which lies at the core of sociolinguistics and is backed by many small-scale studies on face-to-face communication, is addressed here by constructing a dataset combining the ...
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The structure of online social networks modulates the rate of lexical change [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 New words are regularly introduced to communities, yet not all of these words persist in a community's lexicon. Among the many factors contributing to lexical change, we focus on the understudied effect of social networks. We conduct a large-scale analysis of over 80k neologisms in 4420 online communities across a decade.
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Contact, the feature pool and the speech community : The emergence of Multicultural London English. [PDF]
, 2011 In Northern Europe’s major cities, new varieties of the host languages are emerging in the multilingual inner cities. While some analyse these ‘multiethnolects’ as youth styles, we take a variationist approach to an emerging ‘Multicultural London English’
Androutsopoulos +62 more
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Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Much previous work characterizing language variation across Internet social groups has focused on the types of words used by these groups. We extend this type of study by employing BERT to characterize variation in the senses of words as well, analyzing two months of English comments in 474 Reddit communities.
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, 2001 The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method.
Patrick, Peter L
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