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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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Linguistic variations of Blaan in Soccsksargen Region: A variationist sociolinguistic study
Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2023 Understanding language variations opens a wider perspective to language enthusiasts in boosting sociolinguistic awareness as regards to the different ways of using the language in different language contexts. It provides people from different geographical locations of Blaan to understand the language and its use.
Raleigh Ojanola, Mary Ann Tarusan
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Vouvoiement and tutoiement: sociolinguistic reflections [PDF]
, 2013 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009. Published version reproduced with the permission of the publisher.This article offers a critical review of research on the T/V (tu/vous) choice in French, and an analysis of this alternation in terms of ...
Coveney, Aidan
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Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2014 Phonetic choices realized by a person in a speech community are usually labeled in a positive or negative way, demonstrated by linguistic attitudes. Based on the methodology of Sociolinguistics Variationist, this article aims to assess the beliefs and ...
Luiz Antonio Xavier Dias
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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“Dolls or teddies?”: constructing lesbian identity through community-specific practice. [PDF]
, 2014 The concept of ‘community’ often presents a problem for queer linguists. ‘The gay community’ is often viewed as an impossible site for research due to its imagined status, whilst local communities of gay people have been considered too heterogeneous and
Jones, Lucy
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Identifying agents of change: Simplification of possessive marking in Abui-Malay bilinguals
Glossa, 2019 This paper investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a minority bilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both Abui (Papuan) and Alor Malay (Austronesian), but only become active speakers
Francesca Moro +2 more
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Including older adults in variationist sociolinguistics via mobile self-recording
Journal of Language and Aging Research, 2023 Variationist sociolinguistics has made significant contributions to linguistics and allied fields in the study of language variation and change. Yet within this paradigm, older adults remain understudied. There are non-trivial methodological challenges to collecting language data from the old age population.
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Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]
, 2013 The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
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