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Dimensions of social meaning in post-classical Greek towards an integrated approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Especially in the first half of the twentieth century, language was viewed as a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas. Later on, scholars working in linguistic frameworks such as Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, (Historical ...
Bentein, Klaas
core   +1 more source

Code-Switching in the University Level Students of Bangladesh: An Empirical Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The motto of this research article is to present how Bangladeshi University students use the mixture of both English and Bengali language as their spoken language.
Amin, Md Ruhul
core   +2 more sources

Sociolinguistic scales in retrospect [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Linguistics Review, 2020
AbstractIn this commentary, I offer a review of how sociolinguistic scales featured in the development of my own work over the past decade. Scales, I explain, were always indispensable as an imaginative concept allowing a reimagination of sociolinguistic facts, but the concept of scales was never sufficient to adequately address this reimagined reality.
openaire   +3 more sources

Language, responsibility, and agency: How UK's immigrant‐background young adults navigate linguistic heritage

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of agency and responsibility in navigating linguistic heritage among immigrant‐background young adults (18–29 years old) in the UK. Drawing on Judith Butler's theorisation, it provides a nuanced understanding of how individuals engage with and respond to the burdening aspects of heritage language ...
Anna Gruszczyńska‐Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

The speech community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method.
Patrick, Peter L
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Translanguaging decoloniality in a divided island as post‐colonial pedagogic praxis: Cyprus and cultural subversions

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Translanguaging spaces can enable students to have conversations about peace and reconciliation. Such translanguaging opportunities can also contribute holistically to their pedagogic development through the use of full linguistic repertoires.
Anastasia Christou   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

What is language for sociolinguists? The variationist, ethnographic, and conversation-analytic ontologies of language

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2017
The present investigation explores the language definitions (i. e. the language ontologies) that have emerged in the field of sociolinguistics. In general, it examines three types of sociolin-guistic studies: Labovian sociolinguistics (Labov 1972), the ...
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
doaj   +1 more source

Migrant language education in a Nation of Sanctuary

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent reports and research evidence on the organisation and provision of language education for migrants in the UK have illuminated numerous shortfalls. Challenges have been identified not only in the ability of providers to deliver enough English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes to meet need, but also in the way that ESOL ...
Mike Chick
wiley   +1 more source

TO THE SOURCES OF DIACHRONIC SOCIOLINGUISTICS: GLOBAL EXPERIENCE AND UKRAINIAN PROBLEMATICS

open access: yesЗаписки з українського мовознавства, 2017
The subject of the suggested research is a new sphere of sociolinguistics – diachronic sociolinguistics: its sources, subject of the research and tasks.
І. Д. Фаріон
doaj   +1 more source

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