The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives [PDF]
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. +14 more
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Changes and continuities in second person address pronoun usage in Bogotá Spanish
In this article, we provide further evidence that Bogotá Spanish is transitioning from being an extensively usted-using variety into one in which tú is preferred in informal interaction by analyzing survey data through a quantitative approach, and ...
Fernández-Mallat Víctor, Barrero David
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In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England [PDF]
In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- or ...
Levey, S, Pichler, H
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General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar
This special collection brings together research exploring and evaluating probabilistic variation patterns from a comparative perspective, thus highlighting current work situated at the crossroads of research on usage-based theoretical linguistics ...
Benedikt Heller +3 more
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Based in a sociophonetic analysis of lyrics performed by eight male Reggaeton artists of Puerto Rican origin, this study combines raciolinguistic and variationist frameworks to examine the frequency of occurrence and underlying linguistic, musicological,
Derrek Powell
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Heritage Tagalog Phonology and a Variationist Framework of Language Contact
Heritage language variation and change provides an opportunity to examine the interplay of contact-induced and language-internal effects while extending the variationist framework beyond monolingual speakers and majority languages.
Pocholo Umbal, Naomi Nagy
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Sali A. Tagliamonte:Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation [PDF]
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Cristina Bleor¸tu, Miguel Cuevas-Alonso
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New perspectives on language and gender: Linguistic prescription and compliance in call centres [PDF]
Despite a shift to service-based economies, male-dominated, high-status workplaces have been the predominant focus of research into language and gender in the workplace.
Anna Kristina Hultgren +23 more
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A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics [PDF]
Labov and Waletzky’s (1997[1967]) path-breaking description of “narrative syntax” arose in the context of variationist sociolinguistic research, and narrative continues to be an important source of data for variationist’ work. In most of this work, however, narrative is not the object of study.
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The scope of language contact as a constraint factor in language change: The periphrasis haber de plus infinitive in a corpus of language immediacy in modern Spanish [PDF]
In this work an empirical study grounded in the principles and methods of the comparative variationist framework is conducted to measure the scope of language contact as a factor constraining some potentially diverging uses of a Spanish verbal ...
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana +57 more
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