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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multilingual writers increasingly build meaning across digital platforms, yet translanguaging research has largely observed one space, on one platform, at a time. How meaning travels between those sites, and what that movement makes possible, remains difficult to see.
Julie Choi, Melissa Jufenna Slamet
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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 Heterogeneity is a recurrent theme and simultaneously a research focus of Cultural Studies. Not unrelated to this is the focus on complex diachronic and synchronic variability in language and discourse as demonstrated within the broad range of ...
Paul Y. Cheung
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Applied linguistics and interpreting have much in common; however, the education of signed language interpreters in the States provides barely any applied linguistics training. Linguistic racism (linguicism) frames the education and evaluation of sign language interpreters.
Sharon Grigsby Hill
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates memetic interaction as an illustrative example of complex polycentric online communication. Using a chronotopic‐scalar framework, it offers a theorized account of how online (inter)action works, how it is guided by (perceptions of) normativities, and how it is in dialogue with the “offline.” Specifically, I focus on ...
Taraneh Sanei
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A dictionary of sociolinguistics
, 2004 Sociolinguistics is characterised by increasing heterogeneity, and students are faced with a proliferation of theories, concepts and terminology.
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines 4206 Instagram comments on a lunchbox‐packing video posted by Mama J. Rae, who self‐identifies as a “lower middle class wife.” Her excessive use of processed foods and sugary beverages provokes negative responses, many of which explicitly connect her lunchbox‐packing practices to class identity.
Hanwool Choe
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The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change.
Mæhlum, Brit., Åfarli, Tor A.
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Bridging Sociolinguistics and Trans Studies Through Nonbinary Discourses of Self‐Identification
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss how nonbinary gender in the West is constructed through discourses of self‐identification, such as refusing to ascribe gender to the body and disregarding the social forces of cisnormative perception. However, both sociolinguistic research on language and identity and transgender studies suggest that nonbinary self ...
Ariana Steele
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