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Creating a ‘new space’: code-switching among British-born Greek-Cypriots in London [PDF]
, 2013 This paper, located in the traditions of Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1982) and Social Constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966), explores code-switching and identity practices amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots.
Finnis, Katerina
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Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma [PDF]
, 2013 This article describes discursive processes by which inhabitants of the Congolese border town Goma attribute new indexical values to Lingala, a language exogenous to the area of which most Goma inhabitants only possess limited knowledge.
Büscher, Karen +2 more
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The analysis of gendered linguistic features of characters in contemporary Iranian cinema based on the social actor theory [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIntroductionSociolinguistics is a field in which the social aspects of language are studied. Different social matters are reflected in cinema and since gender is a social matter and also a controversial issue, it is one of the main focuses of ...
Fatemeh Horabadi Farahani +2 more
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Linguistic commodification in tourism [PDF]
, 2014 Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2002 and 2012 in Switzerland, Catalunya and different zones of francophone Canada in sites related to heritage and cultural tourism, we argue that tourism, especially i n multilingual peripheries, is a key site for ...
Duchêne, Alexandre +2 more
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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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Mark My Words! Linguistic Style Accommodation in Social Media
, 2011 The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another's communicative behavior: they coordinate in a variety of dimensions including choice of ...
Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cristian +2 more
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Sociolinguistic and contact-induced variation in Hungarian language use in Subcarpathia, Ukraine [PDF]
, 2012 In addition to showing regional and social variation, the language use of the minority Hungarians of Subcarpathia, Ukraine, also presents a reflection of the region’s complex linguistic history and its effects from contact with Russian and Ukrainian.
Csernicskó, István, Fenyvesi, Anna
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The Influence of Social Networks During Study Abroad: Acquiring Non-Standard Varieties
LanguagesOver the past 20 years, researchers have shown increasing interest in social network analysis to understand second language acquisition (SLA), especially in a study abroad (SA) context.
Rozenn Gautier, Jean-Pierre Chevrot
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
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Code Switching in Social Media Twitter [PDF]
, 2014 The study deals with the types of code switching and reasons why people switch their language in social media Twitter. The objectives of study are to find out contextual type and the grammatical type of code-switching which is mostly used in social media
Meisuri, M. (Meisuri) +1 more
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