“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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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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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie +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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A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to ascertain the degree to which lexical diversity, density and creativity in everyday spoken British English have changed over a 20-year period, as a function of age and gender. Usage patterns of the four verb-forming suffixes, -
Jaworska, Sylvia +2 more
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WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 209-218, June 2026.Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
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The no man’s land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variability [PDF]
, 2015 exaly +5 more sources
LanguagesThis 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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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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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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