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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 ...
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World Englishes and applied linguistics: Theoretical and applied perspectives
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 356-365, June 2026.Abstract This article examines the evolving relationship between world Englishes (WE) and applied linguistics (AL), tracing AL's historical development from its Anglo‐American origins in the mid‐20th century, grounded in “linguistics applied” to its contemporary status as a multidisciplinary field concerned with social justice and equity. It highlights
Kingsley Bolton
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Word-Final /s/ Aspiration in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2019 Following the theoretical and methodological principles of Variationist Sociolinguistics, this paper analyzes the use of the aspirated variant of postvocalic /s/ by residents of City of God, a predominantly-black neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro that is ...
Edvan P. Brito
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'Awesome' insights into semantic variation [PDF]
, 2010 No description ...
Robinson, Justyna A
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 177-192, April 2026.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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Isogloss, 2023 It has been shown that the presence of a definite article (DA) prior to a personal name (PN) varies not only across languages, but also across varieties of the same language.
Robin Tieperman, Brendan Regan
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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation:class, ethnicity, and social practice [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class and social practice. I focus on the realisation of the HAPPY vowel in Sheffield
Kirkham, Sam
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“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 This sociolinguistic study explores lexical innovations and variation in the lexemes of Nigerian English formed during the COVID-19Pandemic. The emergence and spread of the virus have significantly altered the societal norm to becoming what is called the
Oluwateniola Kupolati +2 more
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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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A case of variable impoverishment in European Portuguese [PDF]
, 2014 Este artigo estuda um caso de concordância variável em português europeu que se verifica numa área circunscrita do Norte de Portugal e tem uma distribuição particular: apenas afeta as formas verbais de Infinitivo Flexionado e do Futuro do Conjuntivo ...
Barbosa, Pilar, Freire, Telma
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