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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 327-344, September 2023., 2023
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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Globalising the study of language variation and change: A manifesto on cross‐cultural sociolinguistics

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 5-6, June 2022., 2022
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

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 84-98, February 2022., 2022
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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Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 45-64, February 2022., 2022
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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Children's Knowledge of a Name‐Based Avoidance Register: A Quantitative Study among Datooga of Tanzania

American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 389-400, June 2021., 2021
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

, 2023
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 478-482, November 2023.
Ian Cushing
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Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1402-1412, August 2025.
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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Els usos lingüístics a les aules de secundària a Catalunya i el País Valencià: L'estudiantat i el professorat com a actors de la política lingüística educativa (CA-EN)

Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law, 2018
Aquest article parteix d’un model participatiu d’anàlisi de la política lingüística que considera docents i estudiants com a actors de les polítiques lingüístiques educatives i, doncs, com a subjectes amb agència i capacitat de decidir sobre les tries ...
Avel·lí Flors-Mas
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Llengua d’ús principal de les xarxes socials dels infants bilingües inicials: anàlisi dels factors intervinents

Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, 2014
En aquest article es comuniquen els resultats d’un estudi sobre les xarxes socials establertes en un entorn escolar de primària, fent una atenció especial a les xarxes personals dels infants bilingües inicials. La recerca parteix d’una anàlisi minuciosa
Maria Dolors Areny i Cirilo
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La introducció del concepte de llengua oficial a l’ordenament jurídic espanyol (1902-1931)

Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, 2016
Aquest article ressegueix el procés d’introducció del concepte de llengua oficial en l’ordenament jurídic espanyol. S’hi exposa que, tot i que el castellà operés de facto com a llengua de les administracions públiques, no hi hagué, durant el període ...
Daniel Escribano
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