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The development of medical students' professional identities in rural settings: A scoping review

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Major documented disparities exist in health equity between individuals living in rural and metropolitan areas. Recruiting and retaining doctors in rural areas remains a considerable challenge. Students' exposure to rural experiences facilitates their development of professional identities aligned to this specific community of ...
Catherine Garnsey, Brie Turner, Lynn Valerie Monrouxe   +2 more
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Address Forms and Variation Among University Students in Ghana

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2007
Since Brown and Gilman’s (1960) study, sociolinguists have shown an increasing interest in the use of address forms in various social domains such as politics, workplace, religion, and acdemia.
Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful
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Not-so-strange bedfellows: Documentation, description, and sociolinguistics in Gaza [PDF]

, 2018
Arabic is often investigated within dialectological frameworks that emerged in the 19th century, though that work now exists alongside decades of variationist sociolinguistic research.
William Cotter
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Reconciling Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation in L2 Socio-Pragmatic Development: Intensifier Variation in Spoken German

Languages
This study is the first to scrutinize the rates of, and the lexical diversity in, adjective intensification in second language (L2) German. We additionally attend to the issue concerning whether sociodemographic variables (i.e., length of residence, age,
Mason A. Wirtz
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Introduction: Reconciling approaches to intra-individual variation in psycholinguistics and variationist sociolinguistics

Linguistics Vanguard, 2021
AbstractThe overall theme of this special issue is intra-individual variation, that is, the observable variation within individuals’ behaviour, which plays an important role in the humanities area as well as in the social sciences. While various fields have recognised the complexity and dynamism of human thought and behaviour, intra-individual ...
Bülow, Lars, Pfenninger, Simone E.
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Diachronic and/or synchronic variation? The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in L2 French. [PDF]

, 2007
A majority of the early research in Second Language Acquisition focused on diachronic variation in the learners’ interlanguage (IL), that is, differences in the IL linked to a supposed increase in knowledge between two points in time (cf.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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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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Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Dialect contact and distinctiveness: The social meaning of language variation in an island community [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, we analyse linguistic variables which are well-established in British English, the vowels in the trap and bath lexical sets. We demonstrate that the social meanings of these variables are both historically substantiated and locally ...
Agha, Agha, Banfield, Beal, Beal, Beal, Borlase, Bowley, Britain, Britain, Bucholtz, Campbell-Kibler, Cheshire, Collins, Coupland, Eckert, Eckert, Eckert, Eckert, Ellis, Glasberg, Grigson, Irvine, Johnstone, Johnstone, Johnstone, Kiesling, Kiesling, Labov, Ladefoged, Lass, Lewes, Love, MacMahon, Moore, Mothersole, Mumford, Ochs, Orton, Rickford, Sharma, Silverstein, Snell, Strobl, Strobl, Strobl, Tagliamonte, Thomas, Troutbeck, Trudgill, Uren, Wakelin, Wakelin   +52 more
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