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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]
Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language. In this article we present a survey of the emerging field of “computational sociolinguistics” that reflects this increased interest.
Dong Nguyen+3 more
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The Scope of Sociolinguistics [PDF]
Abstract As sociolinguistics continued to develop in the 1970s, members of the Council’s Committee on Sociolinguistics (1963–1979) reflected on the direction and intellectual impact of this emergent discipline. In this 1972 article, Dell Hymes, cochairman of the committee, describes several orientations toward the field among its ...
D. Hymes
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A Sociolinguistics of the South
This book brings to life initiatives among scholars of the south and north to understand better the intelligences and pluralities of multilingualisms in southern communities and spaces of decoloniality. Chapters follow a longue duree perspective of human co-existence with communal presents, pasts, and futures; attachments to place; and insights into ...
Heugh, Kathleen+3 more
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Folklore and Sociolinguistics [PDF]
Folklore and sociolinguistics exist in a symbiotic relationship; more than that, at points—in the ethnography of communication and in ethnopoetics, for example—they overlap and become indistinguishable.
John Holmes McDowell
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Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma [PDF]
In this editorial to the special collection “Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma” we outline the concepts of mental, health, discourse and stigma as they are examined through sociolinguistic lenses.
Olga Zayts-Spence+2 more
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Sociolinguistics of translation [PDF]
The paper describes how sociolinguistics, revealing the relationship between language and society independently of translation, provides scientifically well-founded descriptions of the relationship between the source language and source language society, and the target language and the target language society, and might thus contribute to exploring the
Kinga Klaudy
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Reflexivity in Sociolinguistics [PDF]
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Barbara Johnstone
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A Glossary of Sociolinguistics [PDF]
Sample entries: Abstand language (German /'apstant/) A variety of language which is regarded as a language in its own right, rather than a dialect, by virtue of being very different in its characteristics from all other languages.
P. Trudgill
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Cultural bias and Sociolinguistics [PDF]
Peoples and individuals around the globe continuously develop their own communicative habits. With each generation, adjustments to changing circumstances are made - economic circumstances, natural circumstances, and, for instance, mobility circumstances.
Dick Smakman
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An Interactional Sociolinguistics Perspective [PDF]
In this husband and wife’s conversation about future vacation plans, a communication struggle seems to be taking place. The interlocutors are struggling to get their respective points across through conflicting frames, differing stances, and lack of ...
Donna DelPrete
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