Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Proto-Linguistic Variation: A Link between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
, 1989 Joseph Greenberg
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Peer-reviewed ArticleRhoticity in the Accents of American Film Actors: A Sociolinguistic Study [PDF]
, 2000 Nancy C. Elliott
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A translated utopia: Embodied communication, media ideologies, and Star Trek's Universal Translator
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such a technology does not exist, taking its potentialities seriously as folkloric devices allows for an exploration of ideologies relating to ...
Sarah Shulist
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A sociolinguistic study of language contact, shift, and change
, 1985 RAYMOND MOUGEON +2 more
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The sociolinguistic stratification of Hungarian in Subcarpathia [PDF]
, 2000 István Csernicskó, Anna Fenyvesi
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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The sociolinguistics of Hong Kong and the space for Hong Kong English [PDF]
, 2000 Kingsley Bolton
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Speakin’ and Spokin’ in Jamaica: Conflict and Consensus in Sociolinguistics
, 1993 Peter L. Patrick, Bonnie McElhinny
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