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Abstract This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward as a theory of language contact as conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart and as a reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model of diglossia, and came as a response to conditions of swift social and linguistic ...
James Costa
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Abstract Sociolinguistic study of variation and change has a long‐standing bias towards speech communities in Western and especially Anglophone societies. We argue that our field requires a much wider scope for variation studies, which puts more emphasis on culturally contextualised social meaning in the full range of human societies.
Aria Adli, Gregory R. Guy
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Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics
Abstract The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism, language contact, variation, and language attitudes—are of immediate relevance to sign languages.
Annelies Kusters, Ceil Lucas
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Abstract This article aims to investigate the relationship of sociolinguists with the publics in Catalonia and to disentangle the complex interrelationships among academics within the discipline. By examining material from mainstream media outlets and data from interviews with a selected number of sociolinguist scholars, we show how the public sphere ...
Iker Erdocia, Josep Soler
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ABSTRACT Among Datooga pastoralists of Tanzania, an elaborate in‐law naming taboo has led to the emergence of a conventionalized avoidance vocabulary used by married women. We report on a survey investigating Datooga children's knowledge of this special vocabulary. The questionnaire and our expectations were pre‐registered and the results were analyzed
Alice Mitchell, Péter Marton Rácz
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Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 478-482, November 2023.
Ian Cushing
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El procés de bilingüització a Catalunya en el segle xx a partir de testimonis orals
Aquest article presenta els primers resultats d’una recerca que ha donat veu a cinquanta-cinc testimonis, nascuts abans de 1930, que relaten en primera persona com i quan van adquirir el castellà.
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Recensió de Castell, Xisca, Vanrell Maria del Mar (coord.). (2022). La dinamització lingüística: bases, eines i estratègies. Govern de les illes balears i Universitat de les Illes Balears.
Carles de Rosselló
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Aquest article analitza els usos lingüístics i les característiques principals dels dos grups on es produeixen canvis en passar de la llengua inicial a la llengua d’identificació (avenç del català i retrocés del català).
Albert Fabà Prats, Joaquim Torres-Pla
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Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland
ABSTRACT Northern Vietnam, in particular the regions along the international border, is home to a rich diversity of language communities. Important research opportunities have presented themselves in the Tai‐speaking communities in rural districts near Laos with an emphasis on the development and preservation of the Tai languages.
Thi‐Nham Le, Norbert Francis
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