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Is Gender‐Inclusive Language Left‐Wing? The Social Meaning of Four Gender‐Inclusive Strategies in French and German

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite evidence that gender‐inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left‐wing politics. This study explores the social meaning of gender‐inclusive language compared with generic masculines in French and German, using four gender ...
Benjamin Storme, Naomi Truan, Jo Lychnara, Gráinne Deasy   +3 more
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Methodological Advancements in Dialect Identification Tasks: Perception, Representation and Social Meaning in South East England

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech excerpts. This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of uniting five strands of investigation in dialect identification tasks: (1 ...
Amanda Cole
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma. [PDF]

BMC Psychol, 2023
Zayts-Spence O, Edmonds D, Fortune Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
wiley   +1 more source

Qualitative and quantitative research in Sociolinguistics: methodological dadaism?

Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2013
The confluence between quantitative and qualitative research in Sociolinguistics is a methodological Dadaism? The issue here is not epistemology, because I assume that the Sociolinguistics studies the language linked to social. I want to demonstrate that
Caroline Rodrigues Cardoso
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
wiley   +1 more source

Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Broadening the Base of Historical Sociolinguistics

Cadernos de Linguística
This brief introduction to the special issue on historical sociolinguistics tells the story of how this project came about. Our major goals have been to highlight work in this still new subfield of linguistics, especially with an eye to increasing the ...
Josh Brown, David Natvig, Joseph Salmons
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The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source