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The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives [PDF]

, 2008
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 BSA Publications Ltd.Perspectives on gender and identity that emphasize variability of performance, local context and individual ...
Anderson, B., Bourdieu, P., Clive Seale, Coates, J., Connell, R.W., Eckert, P., Giddens, A., Jonathan Charteris-Black, Lakoff, R., Rayson, P., Rose, D., Savage, M., Scott, M., Stokoe, E., Townsend, P.   +14 more
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Survey area selection in Variationist Linguistic Landscape Study (VaLLS) [PDF]

Linguistic Landscape. An international journal, 2020
AbstractThis article addresses the unresolved issue of systematic survey area selection for large-scale quantitative Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies. It presents a strategy of ‘hypothesis-driven stratified sampling’ whereby survey areas are picked out in a nested, multi-step process on the basis of the configuration of local LL audiences (regarding ...
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New speakers: Challenges and opportunities for variationist sociolinguistics [PDF]

, 2017
While the field of variationist sociolinguistics has advanced rapidly since Labov (1966), it remains the case that a socially informed theory of language change continues to be influenced by only very few languages, typically English and a handful other ...
Adkins, Amano, Bichurina, Blanchet, Bortoni-Ricardo, Bucholtz, Campbell, Cheshire, Cheshire, Costa, Costa, Coupland, Del Percio, Dorian, Dorian, Drummond, Edwards, Firth, Frekko, Gal, Gal, Holton, Hornsby, Hornsby, Hornsby, Hymes, Jaffe, Jones, Jones, Jones, Kasstan, Kasstan, Kasstan, Kennard, Kerswill, Labov, Labov, Labov, Li, Lippi-Green, Manoukian, Matsumoto, Mayeux, McCarthy, McLeod, Meyerhoff, Milardo, Milroy, Milroy, Milroy, Milroy, Mitchell, Morris, Mougeon, Nagy, Nagy, Nance, Nance, O'Rourke, O'Rourke, O'Rourke, O'Rourke, Ortega, Pujolar, Robert, Sallabank, Sankoff, Sayers, Sayers, Silverstein, Smackman, Stanford, Tagliamonte, Thiers, Tomé Lourido, Trenchs-Parera, Trosset, Urla, Walsh, Weinreich, Wenger, Wilson, Woolard, Woolhiser, Ó hIfearnáin   +84 more
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Reaching out to the other side: Formal-linguistics-based SLA and Socio-SLA [PDF]

, 2013
Generative linguistics has long been concerned with the linguistic competence of the “ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly” (Chomsky 1965: 3).
Kinzler, Lambert, Lantolf, Lantolf, Lantolf, Lantolf, Larsen, Lindemann, Mori, Moyer, Muñoz, O Brien, Paradis, Patkowski, Pearson, Pearson, Piske, Place, Poon, Schieffelin, Selinker, Tare, Tarone, Tarone, Tarone, Thomas, Van Hofwegen, Watson, Werker, Werker, Young   +30 more
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Register as a predictor of linguistic variation [PDF]

, 2012
Over the last two decades, corpus analysis has been used as the basis for several important reference grammars and dictionaries of English. While these reference works have made major contributions to our understanding of English lexis and grammar, most ...
Biber, Douglas
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]

, 2016
Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska, Doğruöz, A. Seza, Nguyen, Dong, Rosé, Carolyn P.   +3 more
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Variations in the Nominal Agreement in the Language Spoken in the Capital of Alagoas

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2019
Based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of variationist sociolinguistics, the correlation between the usage of nominal agreement in Maceio and the linguistics of linear position, grammatical word class and the relation of grammatical word ...
Andressa Kaline L. Oliveira MARQUES, Almir Almeida de OLIVEIRA, Aldir Santos de PAULA   +2 more
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Vous or tu? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope [PDF]

, 2004
Sociolinguistic rules governing choice of pronouns of address are notoriously difficult in French, despite the fact that the number of variants is rather limited: the more formal vous versus the more informal tu.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives

Open Linguistics, 2018
The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’.
Ehmer Oliver, Rosemeyer Malte
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The use of address forms among faculty academic staff of Bayero University, Kano

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2019
This paper investigates the use of address forms among the academic staff of the Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies at the Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
Isa Yusufu Chamo
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