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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 12-25, March-June 2025.
Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/  in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
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Toeing the Party Line: Indexicality and Regional Andalusian Phonetic Features in Political Speech

Languages, 2023
Performative style is an important sociolinguistic variable among politicians, who accomplish agentive goals through speech. Examining 32 Spanish politicians, this article focuses on four Andalusian Spanish phenomena: the fronting of /t͡ʃ/ and the ...
Matthew Pollock
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Testing sociolinguistic theory and methods in world Englishes

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 26-42, March-June 2025.
Abstract This article assesses mainstream sociolinguistic theory and methods in the context of world Englishes. Despite its obvious applicability, sociolinguistic theory has not always been the primary analytic model for world Englishes. The multilingual and sometimes mobile circumstances of world Englishes contexts do not always fit the usual ...
Devyani Sharma
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Editorial

Lifespans and Styles, 2017
It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in
Lauren Hall-Lew
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PROBLEMATYKA OGÓLNA I LOKALNA W LINGWISTYCE SĄDOWEJ NA PRZYKŁADZIE JĘZYKA ARABSKIEGO [PDF]

, 2013
This paper is concerned with four main aspects or parts of forensic linguistics: Forensic linguistics in speech mode and in writing, the special status of Arabic, linguistic problems and possibilities of translation for forensics, and Language Analysis ...
ROSENHOUSE, Judith
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A Semiotic Approach to Social Meaning in Language

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 59-73, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Linguistic awareness is a complex and multi‐layered set of processes, existing in different forms of consciousness or knowledge. Social meaning resides in the ways that people perceive linguistic behavior as patterned and predictable, depending on their experience with, stereotypes about, and understanding of different groups.
Anna M. Babel
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Editorial

Lifespans and Styles, 2016
It is my pleasure to present the second issue of the second volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. This issue includes six papers from nine authors. The first three papers are by undergraduate students in Dr
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 74-92, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Competing effects of exposure frequency and social preference on phonetic detail: An artificial language learning study

Laboratory Phonology
Speakers often select between phonetic variants to convey social or indexical information. The extent to which speakers can access one variant despite competition from another, more strongly activated one remains largely unanswered.
Jennifer Cole, Shawn Christian Foster
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