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2. Exploring genderlect markers in a corpus of Nineteenth century Spanish novels
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Bermúdez Sabel, Helena, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,attribution studies and stylometric analysis ,Short Presentation ,stylometry ,FOS: Languages and literature ,Linguistics ,genderlect ,spanish novels ,Gender and sexuality studies ,sociolinguistics - Abstract
This study teases out gender-specific linguistic features in fiction writing by carrying out a stylometric analysis of 81 Spanish novels written between 1840 and 1919.
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- 2023
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3. Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects.
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Khalilia, Hadi, Bella, Gábor, Freihat, Abed Alhakim, Darma, Shandy, and Giunchiglia, Fausto
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KINSHIP ,INDONESIAN language ,DIALECTS ,LANGUAGE & languages ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,LINGUISTICS ,LEXICON - Abstract
Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability. However, in computational resources, such as multilingual lexical databases, diversity is hardly ever represented. In this paper, we introduce a method to enrich computational lexicons with content relating to linguistic diversity. The method is verified through two large-scale case studies on kinship terminology, a domain known to be diverse across languages and cultures: one case study deals with seven Arabic dialects, while the other one with three Indonesian languages. Our results, made available as browseable and downloadable computational resources, extend prior linguistics research on kinship terminology, and provide insight into the extent of diversity even within linguistically and culturally close communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. FINDING THE ‘RIGHT’ IRISH FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT: REGISTER IN THE FIRST THREE PRINTED BOOKS IN IRISH, 1567–1602.
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Hoyne, Mícheál
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LINGUISTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,LANGUAGE & languages ,PROTESTANT authors - Abstract
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- 2023
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5. Análisis de las funciones atenuadoras en hablantes de la ciudad de Málaga.
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CRUCES RODRÍGUEZ, MARÍA
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COMMUNICATION ,LANGUAGE & languages ,EDUCATION ,YOUTH ,LINGUISTICS - Abstract
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- 2023
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6. Legado acadêmico de estudos linguísticos em contexto amazônico matogrossense.
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Seganfredo Santos, Leandra Ines and Pereira de Pinho, Albina
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,LINGUISTICS - Abstract
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- 2023
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7. PRAGMÁTICA COMO CIÊNCIA SOCIAL.
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do Nascimento e Silva, Daniel
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,NEUROLINGUISTICS ,PRAGMATICS ,LINGUISTICS ,ETHNOLOGY ,IDEOLOGY - Abstract
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- 2022
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8. AMATORSKIE PROMOWANIE GWARY CIESZYŃSKIEJ (WYBRANE FORMY, STRATEGIE, ROZWIĄZANIA).
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Bortliczek, Małgorzata and Bogoczová, Irena
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YOUNG adults ,LANGUAGE policy ,LANGUAGE awareness ,DIALECTS ,VIDEO blogs ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
The paper focuses on the dialectological topics and problems related to sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics and psycholinguistics. It gives us insight into Cieszyn Silesia's linguistic situation, especially in the Czech part of Zaolzie. It presents four social and individual activities, which aim to promote, support, and even revive Cieszyn dialect. The authors describe respectively:1) testing knowledge of the dialect in form of quizzes, 2) promotion of the dialect across musical texts, 3) encouraging children and young people to use the dialect in a dialect contest, and 4) recording amateur vlogs, which are to enhance internet users' language and national awareness. Internet and authors' own remarks related to the official and unofficial social events are the sources of the language materials used in this analy-sis. Language and cultural development in society - as it is well known - heads toward unification that is increasingly difficult to resist effectively. The subjects responsible for promoting the dialect are eager to maintain the territorial dialect of the national language for future generations. Although they sometimes do it unprofessionally, linguists should be interested respectively in their efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Mixed Speech Styles in Two Single-Gendered Occupational Groups: Identities in Interaction.
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Pinkevičienė, Dalia
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SPEECH ,WORK environment ,LINGUISTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
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- 2022
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10. Zur Pragmatik von Fachsprachen am Beispiel der „Anstandsliteratur“.
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ERNST, PETER
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LANGUAGE research ,BUSINESS consultants ,SOCIAL reality ,OPEN innovation ,LINGUISTICS ,COMPLIMENTS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,BUSINESS etiquette - Abstract
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- 2022
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11. A expressão variável do imperativo no português brasileiro: uma análise sob o viés construcional.
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de CARVALHO, Luiz Fernando
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NATIONAL territory ,CONSTRUCTION grammar ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,LINGUISTICS ,LANGUAGE & languages - Abstract
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- 2021
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12. Polémica por la creación de la Academia Canaria de la Lengua. Un análisis glotopolítico.
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Guerra Casado, Pablo
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SPANISH language -- Grammar ,LINGUISTICS ,LANGUAGE & languages ,LANGUAGE policy ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
Copyright of Boletín de Filología is the property of Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2021
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13. Ilang Tampok na Katangian ng Ponolohiya ng Wikang Ayta Magbukun.
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CRUZ, NOAH and PIEDAD, YEDDAH JOY
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PHONOTACTICS ,PHONETICS ,COMPUTER software ,PHONEME (Linguistics) ,LINGUISTICS ,PSYCHOACOUSTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
According to the latest report of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) International, Ayta Magbukun, which has approximately one thousand speakers, is currently one of the Philippine languages with the smallest population. The present paper seeks to contribute to the limited documentation and studies on the said language by providing a brief discussion on some of the phonological characteristics of Ayta Magbukun. The discussion specifically revolves around the following areas: segmental and suprasegmental phonemes, phonotactics, and morphophonological processes. In order to provide a comprehensive analysis of the topic, methods commonly used in acoustic phonetics were employed in this study, such as the use of computer software Praat and JPlot Formants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
14. Magyar élőnyelvi kutatások a Kárpát-medencében, 1985-2021.
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MIKLÓS, KONTRA
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MONOGRAPHIC series ,SERIAL publication of books ,TWENTIETH century ,HUNGARIANS ,LINGUISTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics - Abstract
Hungarian sociolinguistic research began in the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1985. This research program soon expanded to embrace the Hungarian communities in the countries bordering Hungary. Unlike all previous research in Hungarian linguistics, this program aims to survey the language use of 10 million Hungarians in Hungary and 3 million bi- or multilingual Hungarians in the neighbouring countries. In this paper, three major projects are briefly discussed: the Hungarian National Sociolinguistic Survey, the Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview, and the book series "The Hungarian Language in the Carpathian Basin at the End of the 20th Century". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
15. TEXTOS FONÉTICOS DE CUBA (1965-2006).
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FERNÁNDEZ DE CASTRO, FÉLIX
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PHONETICS ,LINGUISTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,DIALECTS ,HISTORIOGRAPHY - Abstract
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- 2022
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16. A comparative typology of verbal affixes in Riau-Malay and Sundanese.
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Tambusai, Azhary and Nasution, Khairina
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,GRAMMATICAL categories ,WORD order (Grammar) ,ARCHIPELAGOES ,LINGUISTICS - Abstract
This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of verbal affixes in two Austronesian languages, Riau-Malay and Sundanese, with a focus on their morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. Both languages are spoken in the Indonesian archipelago, and while they share certain linguistic characteristics, they exhibit intriguing differences in their verbal affixation systems. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of linguistic diversity within Austronesian languages and to reveal on the mechanisms underlying verb formation in these two distinct linguistic systems. By comparing and contrasting the verbal affixation systems in these languages, this study aims to reveal striking differences in terms of affix types, attachment patterns, and grammatical functions. The analysis explored the morphology of verbal affixes used in Riau-Malay and its comparison in Sundanese. It identifies clear distinctions in the ways affixes are employed to mark tense, aspect, mood, and other grammatical categories. Furthermore, the study also investigated the syntactic roles of verbal affixes, exploring how they affect word order and argument structure in sentences. This analysis exposes intriguing patterns of valency-changing operations in Riau-Malay and Sundanese. The findings of this study are expected to enhance people's understanding of Riau-Malay and Sundanese and to contribute to the broader typological and theoretical discussions in linguistics. The comparative analysis of these two languages provides valuable insights into the ways in which languages within the Austronesian family can diverge and adapt to their unique cultural and historical contexts. Ultimately, this study may be valuable to advance our knowledge of linguistic diversity and variation, offering a deeper appreciation of the intricate web of languages that shape human communication in the Indonesian archipelago and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. Challenging norms of gender and language
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Nadia Takhtaganova and Pocholo Umbal
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Gender and Language ,Work (electrical) ,Perspective (graphical) ,Sociology ,Linguistics ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
In this special issue of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, we engage in this productive and growing conversation by bringing together ongoing work on gender-inclusive language as well as the linguistic practices among trans and non-binary communities. Each of these papers offers a unique perspective on the ever-diversifying nuances of language, and together challenge established norms of language use and research practices.
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- 2021
18. Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation
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Ben Rampton
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Linguistics and Language ,Philosophy ,Enculturation ,Socialization ,Ethnic group ,Peer group ,Sociology ,Ingroups and outgroups ,Code-switching ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Code (semiotics) ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
LANGUAGE CROSSING AND THE PROBLEMATISATION OF ETHNICITY AND SOCIALISATION Ben Rampton This paper begins in Section 1 by noting two processes that have been generally overlooked in sociolinguistics. Firstly, the prevailing approaches to ethnicity have tended to neglect the processes through which individuals can either adopt someone else's ethnicity, or get together with them and create a new one. Secondly, socialization in sociolinguistics is most commonly seen as enculturation into an ingroup, not as a process of learning to like and live with social and ethnic difference. To throw some light on these two processes, the paper turns its focus towards a practice it calls 'language crossing' ('code crossing', 'crossing'). Language crossing involves code alternation by people who are not accepted members of the group associated with the second language that they are using (code switching into varieties that are not generally thought to belong to them). This kind of switching involves a distinct sense of movement across social or ethnic boundaries and it raises issues of legitimacy which, in one way or another, participants need to negotiate in the course of their encounter. A fuller account of the intricate dialectic between language, peer group belonging and ethnic otherness that lies at the heart of language crossing emerges as the paper proceeds. After some methodological preliminaries (Section 2) and an outline of some of the ways in which the multiracial peer group I studied can be considered a community (Section 3), the empirical description of crossing itself begins with an initial emphasis on the way that crossing was integrated with what was shared in peer group culture (Section 4). The following section (Section 5) turns to the way in which crossing processed ethnic division and race stratification within the peer group, and this is further elaborated in the discussion of socialisation in Section 6. Section 7 contains a conclusion which briefly links crossing's treatment of ethnicity with Bourdieu's discussion of doxa, orthodoxv and heretical discourse.
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- 2022
19. Hegemony, social class and stylisation
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Ben Rampton
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Subjectivity ,Late modernity ,Linguistics and Language ,Hegemony ,Identity (social science) ,Social class ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Philosophy ,Aesthetics ,Social inequality ,Sociology ,Interactional sociolinguistics ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
Focusing on issues of class identity, this paper explores the relationship between sociolinguistics and Raymond Williams’ view of hegemony as “relations of domination and subordination… [that saturate] the whole process of living…: Our senses and assignments of energy, our shaping perceptions of ourselves and our world” (1977: 109-110). It assesses the kinds of insight afforded in both variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, and then turns to an analysis of London adolescents putting on exaggerated ‘posh’ and ‘Cockney’ accents in situated interaction. Underpinning the contingencies of particular instances, there was a set of well-established dualisms shaped in relations of class inequality (high vs low, mind vs body, reason vs emotion), and the resonance and reach of these was attested both in corporeal performance and in the fantastical grotesque. Can theories of interactional ‘identity projection’ do justice to this, or can sociolinguistics accommodate the cultural analyst’s wider concern for ‘subjectivity’? The paper looks at ways of drawing these perspectives together, and concludes with an emphatic rejection of claims that in late modernity, class identities are losing their significance.
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- 2022
20. Delicacies
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Jan Blommaert
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Linguistics and Language ,Identity (social science) ,Performative utterance ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Philosophy ,Semiosis ,Paradigm shift ,Diacritic ,language ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Sociolinguistics ,Arvanitika - Abstract
The papers in the second half of this volume all testify to the way in which the study of identity has moved from categorial (yes/no) distinctions towards the delicacies of social and cultural positions in discourse. They also show that in order for such finer distinctions to take shape in analysis, attention needs to be given to details of the deployment of specific discourse and semiotic resources. None of the analyses falls into the wide-open trap of equating ‘language’ with identity; they all focus on connections between actual discourse and semiosis, and subject/speaker positions, inhabited and ascribed micro-identities, and features of the social and cultural imagination that determine available identity repertoires. They represent, thus, a stage in a paradigm shift that has been underway for a couple of decades now, in which scholars abandon homogenizing and static categorial notions of identity (as in ‘national’ or ‘ethnic’ identity) and develop performative, inter-subjective and pragmatic/metapragmatic models of identity. In sociolinguistics, the paradigm shift is one that takes us from a sociolinguistics of static and immobile languages associated with ‘communities’ to a sociolinguistics of mobile resources and speech associated with flexible networks of language participants. This process is not complete and steps in it, consequently, bear the traces of the older paradigm. Thus, Tsitsipis and Georgeakopoulou & Finnis start their analysis from within a ‘community’, rather traditionally defined. In Tsitsipis’ case, the community is defined as a ‘national minority’ of Arvanitika speakers – a definition that incorporates both a state categorisation device of ‘minorities’ and an older ethnolinguistic-identity diacritic, and both are of questionable validity in empirical terms. In the case of Georgakopoulou & Finnis, the national paradigm also emerges, diasporically this time, in defining the community as ‘Greek Cypriots in London’, and the same restrictions apply here. In both papers, there is a tension between the flexible and constantly shifting microscopic identity patterns (or ‘positioning’ patterns) that are analytically demonstrated, and the a priori and conservative categorisation of the research target groups that forms the point of departure of the research. The tension occurs whenever the ‘community’ is described as ‘changing’: Undoubtedly such changes occur, and some of these changes (e.g. the alternated or ‘confused’ use of ‘Greek’ and ‘Cypriot’ by Georgakopoulou & Finnis’ respondents) may call into question the foundations of the community. The reference point for such changes, we can see from such examples, need not be a traditional conception of national, ethnic or ethnolinguistic communities, because all of these categories are products of particular (‘modernist’) paradigms of scholarship, and features of the ‘modern’ nation-state apparatuses for distinguishing people. We see such apparatuses at work in Giaxoglou’s data, where an early (‘modernist’) philologist deploys particular orthographic tactics in the representations of
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- 2022
21. Ainda em favor de uma interface entre sociolinguística e gramaticalização
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Sebastião Carlos Leite Gonçalves
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Perífrase verbal ,Divergence (linguistics) ,P1-1091 ,Conciliation ,Sociofuncionalismo ,Grammaticalization ,Linguistics ,Variação ,Aspecto ,Variation (linguistics) ,Relevance (law) ,Sociology ,Gramaticalização ,Philology. Linguistics ,Cursive ,Elaboration ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
Neste artigo, insistimos na defesa de uma proposta de conciliação teórica-metodológica entre duas teorias linguísticas preocupadas com a mudança linguística – a Gramaticalização e a Sociolinguística –, destacando o pioneirismo da Linguística brasileira na elaboração dessa proposta, que passou a ser conhecida como “Sociofuncionalismo”. Para tratar dos pontos de convergência e divergência entre Teoria da Gramaticalização e Teoria da Variação e Mudança Linguística, partimos dos trabalhos de Naro e Braga (2000) e de Görski e Tavares (2013, 200-?), por terem sido os primeiros a responderem questões relevantes que levariam ao trabalho de interface entre os dois modelos teóricos. Ilustramos essa proposta de conciliação com casos de perífrases verbais de aspecto cursivo que, resultantes de gramaticalização, podem ser abordadas sob perspectiva sociofuncionalista. Primeiramente testamos dois critérios de gramaticalização – frequência de uso e parâmetros de auxiliaridade – e depois mostramos os contextos de variação entre as perífrases, provando, assim, a pertinência da proposta.
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- 2021
22. A contribuição de Edair Maria Görski para a descrição de marcadores discursivos do português falado em Florianópolis
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Diane Dal Mago and Cláudia Andrea Rost Snichelotto
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Theory of Forms ,P1-1091 ,Grammatical category ,Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Variação ,Variation (linguistics) ,Brazilian Portuguese ,Multifuncionalidade ,language ,Sociology ,Marcadores discursivos ,Philology. Linguistics ,Discourse marker ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
Neste artigo reunimos uma compilação de trabalhos orientados pela professora Edair Maria Görski, notadamente que tratam da descrição de marcadores discursivos derivados de diferentes categorias gramaticais, como formas verbais (sabe? e entendeu? olha, veja, vê e quer dizer), reduções frasais (tá?), adjetivos (certo? e bom) e advérbios (bem). A partir da confluência entre a perspectiva teórica da Sociolinguística Variacionista e da Linguística Funcional norte-americana, centramos nossa análise nos resultados dos estudos que investigaram a multifuncionalidade e a variação dos MDs a partir de quatro amostras sincrônicas de fala do português da região Sul do Brasil, provenientes do Banco de Dados do Projeto Interinstitucional VARSUL (Variação Linguística Urbana na Região Sul do Brasil) da cidade de Florianópolis, apesar de certas diferenças metodológicas. De modo geral, as quatro amostras do VARSUL/Florianópolis coletaram 2689 dados de marcadores discursivos, dentre os quais os de base verbal, até este momento, foram os mais investigados nas pesquisas. Os resultados das amostras sincrônicas investigadas apontaram variação e tendência de uso das formas.
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- 2021
23. Creative uses of language to invoke sex-related taboos in Churchill Raw comedy shows.
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Nganga, Simon
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COMMUNICATION ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,LINGUISTICS ,LANGUAGE & languages ,COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
Churchill Raw event facilitates creative self-expression of young comedians through the incorporation of a variety of sex-related taboo topics. Yet, the multicultural nature of the participants in the Nairobi-based event makes the communication of such topics particularly problematic, as they can also be deemed offensive. Drawing on theoretical and methodological principles from Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz, 2003), this article investigates how sex-related taboos are drawn into performances using euphemistic linguistic resources, such as puns, metaphors, metonymy, codeswitching and so on. As data we use 10 video recordings of comedians and 2 two-hour interviews with the key comedians. By focusing on situated uses of euphemistic language in the context of comedy in the African city of Nairobi, this article demonstrates that contrary to the general perception, young people observe sex-related taboos by using euphemistic language resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. Mitigating institutional attitudes toward sign languages: A model for language vitality surveys
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Jennifer Marie Bridgett Webster
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Sign (semiotics) ,Sign language ,Vitality ,language.human_language ,Linguistics ,Education ,Speech and Hearing ,Sign Language ,Q140 ,British Sign Language ,Attitude ,Q160 ,language ,Q190 ,Humans ,Psychology ,Sociolinguistics ,Spoken language ,Language - Abstract
This paper is about attitudes toward sign languages. The paper presents an idea to help make sign language surveys better in the future. In 2018, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) published a sign language survey and a spoken language survey together for the first time. This was very important to show that spoken languages and signed languages are equal. But the sign language survey has some weaknesses. The idea presented in this paper says that: when people make sign language surveys, they should be aware of discrimination and negative attitudes; they should give signers access to the survey in sign language; and they should help signers decide what actions they can do to protect their sign language.
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- 2021
25. Philologie et linguistique romane générales – Allgemeine Philologie und Romanische Sprachwissenschaft.
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Kunert, Irene
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FRENCH language ,GERMAN language ,ITALIAN language ,LINGUISTICS ,LANGUAGE & languages ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
Copyright of Vox Romanica: Annales Helvetici Explorandis Linguis Romanicis Destinati is the property of Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH & Co.KG and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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26. Explaining '-splain' in digital discourse
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Judith Bridges
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Discourse analysis ,Reflexivity ,Semiotics ,Identity (social science) ,Social media ,Sociology ,Sociocultural evolution ,Metapragmatics ,Sociolinguistics ,Linguistics - Abstract
Combining digital discourse analysis and Citizen Sociolinguistics, methodological frames that contend with the effects of evolving digital practices, I present an approach to studying sociolinguistic trends by investigating how social media users talk about what language is doing. This approach is applicable to research on a wide range of linguistic and cultural contexts. The particular focus in this paper, however, is on U.S.-based social issues and linguistic features of American English as they appear in pieces of digital discourse from the micro-blogging platforms Twitter and Tumblr. Situated within the highly fractured sociopolitical climate of the pandemic-afflicted United States, the language under discussion provides a glimpse of some historically relevant sociocultural beliefs and attitudes towards the role of gender and racial identity in sociopolitical discourse. Focusing on uses of -splain, a metapragmatic bound morpheme, the paper demonstrates how social media users assemble lexical, discursive, and other semiotic resources as means for negotiating sociopragmatic appropriateness. The analysis shows how the usage of words like mansplain encompass the sociolinguistic process of enregisterment through practices of linguistic reflexivity, creativity, and regimentation – practices that are essential aspects of interaction and participation in social media. Using these enregistered metapragmatic words problematizes imbalances in users’ sociopragmatic ideologies, namely who can or cannot say what, to whom, and in what manner. I show how creative metapragmatic language is deployed to discuss issues of entitlement and epistemic authority in communicative dynamics. I draw on theoretical frames that reveal how the recontextualization and resemiotization of -splain words and other metapragmatic neologisms are performances of identity. I also show how splain-mediated communication facilitates users in achieving their own discursive intentions to point out language in judgmental and/or lighthearted manners. I assert that attention to metapragmatic neologisms in the perspective of Citizen Sociolinguistics enhances the analytical repertoire of digital discourse analysis.
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- 2021
27. El debilitamiento de /s/ codal en Santiago y Concepción, Chile.
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Rogers, Brandon M. A. and Bolyanatz, Mariška
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SPANISH language ,COMMUNICATION ,ACOUSTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,LINGUISTICS - Abstract
Copyright of Boletín de Filología is the property of Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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28. A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems.
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Di Garbo, Francesca and Verkerk, Annemarie
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VARIATION in language ,GENDER ,ZONING ,LINGUISTICS ,GRAMMATICAL gender ,AGREEMENT (Grammar) ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
The suggested diachronic pathway can be summarised as follows: (16) HT
ht While this proposal reflects earlier suggestions by [57]: 127-142), we discuss the added explanatory power and empirical validity of our analysis in the remaining of this section. This hierarchy predicts that patterns of semantic agreement (such as animacy-based agreement) are more likely to spread from agreement targets that are syntactically distant from the controller nouns, such as pronouns and predicates, to agreement targets that are linearly closer to nouns, such as adnominal modifiers, which is exactly what Example 1 shows for Swahili. In principle, each target type may be associated with one of the four logically possible configurations: it may display only syntactic agreement it may display only animacy-based agreement it may display both syntactic and animacy-based agreement it may lack both syntactic and animacy-based agreement Given all logically possible combinations of the two agreement patterns attested in the languages of the sample (syntactic vs. animacy-based), we can posit four types, which are illustrated in the form of a tetrachoric table in Table 2. The data were binarized such that languages with only syntactic agreement formed one group, while the other group captured the three remaining types, i.e., languages with both syntactic and animacy-based agreement, languages with only animacy-based agreement, and languages without gender. [Extracted from the article]1. only syntactic gender agreement 2. syntactic and animacy-based agreement with animate nouns 3. syntactic and animacy-based agreement with animate and inanimate nouns 4. only animacy-based agreement 5. no gender - Published
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29. موقف الولايات المتحدة الأميركية من الحياد الأرجنتيني خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية (1939- 1945).
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أيمن كاظم حاجم ال and حميد عبد الغفار ح
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NATURAL languages ,LINGUISTICS ,STAIRS ,PRAGMATICS ,SPEECH ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
Copyright of Adab Al-Kufa is the property of Republic of Iraq Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research (MOHESR) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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30. Multilingual Language Ideological Assemblages: Language Contact, Documentation and Revitalization.
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Kroskrity, Paul V.
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LANGUAGE contact ,LANGUAGE revival ,LINGUISTICS ,CODE switching (Linguistics) ,YOUNG adults ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
Data from long-term research in two ideologically divergent Native American linguistic communities demonstrate the importance, first, of indigenous multilingualisms and, second, of distinctive ideologies of multilingualism in shaping the divergent language contact outcomes and practices of those communities as they adapted to such forces as economic incorporation, colonization, assimilationist policies, and later decolonization and attempted language revitalization. Indigenous ideological differences in these communities were key factors in producing divergent patterns of language shift as well as in community efforts to document and revitalize their respective heritage languages. The Village of Tewa (NE Arizona) still partially retains a multilingual adaptation in all generations except youth and young adults (Kroskrity, 1993 ; 2014). The Western Mono (Central California) were traditionally multilingual with neighboring languages of the Yokuts and Southern Sierra Miwok groups (Kroskrity, 2009a). Though both groups were historically multilingual, multilingual practices were differentially influenced by distinctive language ideologies such as those emphasizing purism/syncretism and the expressive/utilitarian functions of language. This observation suggests the importance of understanding indigenous multilingualisms and their consequences for language contact within their language ideological assemblages (Kroskrity, 2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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31. From SPEAKING to SEMIOSIS
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Alastair Pennycook
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Cultural Studies ,Linguistic anthropology ,Interactivity ,Semiosis ,Sociology ,Acronym ,Set (psychology) ,Social semiotics ,Linguistics ,Sociolinguistics ,Social relation ,Education - Abstract
This paper explores the quest for an account of the ‘total linguistic fact’. Speech act theory, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics have all attempted, in various ways and at various times, to find a way to describe as much as possible that is going on around any speech event. While this search for the total linguistic fact will always be a chimerical goal, this paper proposes a framework based on the acronym SEMIOSIS as one way of grasping the complexity of what is at play, comprising social relations, emotional and sensorial engagement, mobility, Iterative activity, objects and assemblages, socio- and translingual practices, interactivity, and spatial repertoires. Looking at data from a small Bangladeshi-run store in Tokyo, the paper shows how bringing in this wider set of concerns at least allows for a more comprehensive account of sociolinguistic moments.
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32. Do Personality Traits Matter in Preferences of Translation Strategies?
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Vural, Haldun
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TRANSLATIONS ,LINGUISTICS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,TRANSLATORS ,FIVE-factor model of personality - Abstract
Translation is closely related to languages, linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, culture etc. and because of these relations, there are also a lot of theories which give importance either to source language or target language. Linguistic and other features of the source and target texts have been examined for years. But translator is an important element with an important role in translation process as well, and the influence of translators’ personality traits on their translation has been emphasized. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to investigate whether there are relations between translators’ personality characters and their translation strategy preferences. The BFI Test (Big Five- Factor Inventory) is administered to 28 English Translation and Interpreting students at Cappadocia University to determine the personality traits of the participants. Then they are asked to choose one of the suggested translations in accordance with the translation model. The data are analyzed through SPSS (v. 22). The findings indicate that there are significant relationships between personality traits of participants and their use of translation strategies. According to results, agreeableness personality trait has a significant relationship with borrowing strategy, openness and neuroticism have significant relationships with modulation strategy, and conscientiousness has a significant relationship with adaptation strategy. Only extraversion does not correlate significantly with any of the strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Autobiografía lingüística: una aproximación a las elecciones de lengua de los lingüistas.
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JUNQUERA, MACARENA
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LINGUISTICS ,SCIENTIFIC language ,LINGUISTS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS ,AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Abstract
Copyright of Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica is the property of Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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34. Arabic English Code Switching among Saudi Speakers.
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Alsalami, Ahmed Ibrahim
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CODE switching (Linguistics) ,NATIVE language ,CLASSROOMS ,SAUDI Arabians ,LANGUAGE awareness ,AGE groups - Abstract
Many studies have been conducted on code-switching worldwide, but few were carried out on Saudi context. Therefore, this study inquires the use of code-switching among Saudis who speak both Arabic and English to identify the reasons of code-switching and to know the significant differences regarding gender, age, qualification, and level of English. The study raises two questions. They are: 1) What are the reasons of code-switching of Saudis as native speakers of Arabic? And 2) Are there significant differences for code-switching of Saudis as native speakers of Arabic due to gender, age, qualification, and level of English? A descriptive-analytical approach has been adopted, and SPSS program is used. A questionnaire (30 items) was distributed to a sample of 426 Saudis. Findings showed that those with high-level proficiency combined Arabic and English languages more due to their awareness of English language expressions and found English vocabulary more expressive and delivered their ideas better. Moreover, working people used code-switching extensively. Furthermore, postgraduates were found to be better than others. Additionally, genders were both exposed to the same circumstances. Finally, individuals among all age groups combined both Arabic and English languages due perhaps to several reasons. Therefore, the researcher recommends that it might be better to study the significance of forming training courses to keep the interest of natives to take pride and use it in all aspects of life. Finally, the researcher suggests conducting another study on investigating code-switching among instructors in EFL classrooms and exploring code-mixing since there are few studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. Attitudes of English speakers towards thanking in Spanish
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Carlos De Pablos-Ortega
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Linguistics and Language ,Spanish language ,Politeness ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Foreign language ,Face negotiation theory ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Speech act ,Philosophy ,Perception ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Sociolinguistics ,media_common - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to ascertain the attitudes English native speakers have towards the Spanish language and culture, specifically, in relation to the speech act of thanking and in connection with Brown and Levinson’s model of politeness ([1978] 1987). Two sources of data were used: First, a corpus of 64 course books which included 250 situations representing the speech act of thanking and, second, a questionnaire for the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language. The situations including the speech act of thanking were analysed and then categorized according to various criteria. The criteria were created by taking into consideration Coulmas’ (1981) proposal for the classification of thanking as well as the components of this specific speech act. The most frequent situations found in the course books were then used to devise the second source of data. The aim of this was to determine the attitudes of 300 participants, divided equally between the nationalities used in the investigation, Spanish, British and American. The questionnaire included 12 scenarios in which the thanking formula was omitted. Participants were prompted to answer questions based on their perceptions and to include other responses whenever they considered them to be appropriate. The main findings provided evidence of different facework values across the three groups of informants for some of the specific scenarios. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses of data showed that some of the responses were connected to the thanking formulae, but others to speech acts such as request formulae.
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36. Global issues and local findings from Greek contexts
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Jannis K. Androutsopoulos
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Linguistics and Language ,Philosophy ,Greek language ,Discourse analysis ,FLAGS register ,State of affairs ,Motif (music) ,Sociology ,Language and Linguistics ,Sociolinguistics ,Linguistics ,Diaspora - Abstract
Any glo bally circulating piece of research that flags up a particular national-language context as its centre of attention is bound to raise a twofold expectation in this day and age: To discuss a specific state of affairs in a particular language/society, and to use this as a case in point to cast light on wider theoretical, methodological or empirical issues. The contributions to this issue take their cue from recent sociolinguistics and discourse studies to address aspects of Greek language and discourse, culture and identity in Greece, Cyprus, and the Greek diaspora. In reflecting on the preceding four papers, I shall be asking what they tell us as about Greek and Greekness, whether this Greekness is made relevant as discursive process or interpretive motif, and also how these Greek cases may contribute to our understanding of wider processes of language, society, identity and communication technologies.
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37. Language, identity, performance
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Richard Bauman
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Identity Performance ,Linguistics and Language ,Philosophy ,Perspective (graphical) ,Situated ,Rhetorical question ,Identity (social science) ,Semiotics ,Sociology ,Sociocultural evolution ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
The identity test imposed by the Gileadites on the Ephraimite fugitives at the passages of Jordan suggests that the recognition of ways and means of speaking as indices of social categories has a venerable history. After the passage of several millenia, much the same associational understanding of the relationship between language and identity employed to such violent ends by the Gileadites guides the contemporary - and one would hope more benign line of sociolinguistic inquiry that centers on the investigation of ethnicity or region or gender or age or occupation as “sociolinguistic variables” (see, e.g., Coulmas 1997). The addition of a third term, performance, to the nexus of language and identity, however, occasions a reorientation of analytical perspective. If we take performance in the sense of linguistic practice - situated, interactional, communicatively motivated - our investigative focus shifts from correlational sociolinguistics to the pragmatically oriented exploration of “when and how identities are interactively invoked by sociocultural actors” through the discursive deployment of linguistic resources (Kroskrity 1993: 222). In this perspective, identity is an emergent construction, the situated outcome of a rhetorical and interpretive process in which interactants make situationally motivated selections from socially constituted repertoires of identificational and affiliational resources and craft these semiotic resources into identity claims for presentation to others. This is clearly a productive line of inquiry, and one to which all of the contributors to this issue would subscribe. While acknowledging and exploiting the analytical power of this practice-centered perspective, however, the authors of the papers collected here have taken an additional step into less well charted investigative territory, guided by a more marked conception of verbal performance. Here, performance is understood as a special mode of situated communicative practice, resting on the assumption of accountability to an audience for a display of communicative skill and efficacy. In this sense of performance, the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surroundings and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience. Performance foregrounds form-functionmeaning interrelationships through verbal display (Bauman 1977; Hymes 1975). The six casestudies that follow suggest some of the ways that an orientation to this mode of performance
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38. Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics , by Nicholas G. Faraclas & Sally J. Delgado (eds.).
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Escure, Genevieve
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LANGUAGE contact ,LINGUISTIC change ,LINGUISTICS ,CREOLES ,LOANWORDS ,SOCIOLINGUISTICS - Abstract
Hancock believes that MSL was created as an in-group register by Krio speakers (Freetown Maroons) who were the descendants of the Jamaican Eastern Maroons resettled in Sierra Leone by the end of the eighteenth century. Creoles, Revisited: Language Contact, Language Change, and Postcolonial Linguistics, by Nicholas G. Faraclas & Sally J. Delgado (eds.) The book is salvaged by Ian Hancock, who discusses the origin of a distinctive register of Jamaican Creole, the Maroon Spirit Language (MSL), and its similarities with other geographically distant creoles (Krio and Sranan). [Extracted from the article]
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39. Linguistic identity, national archetypes and sociocultural environment of their formation
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Arkadiy P. Sedykh
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Identity (social science) ,General Medicine ,Sociology ,Sociocultural evolution ,Archetype ,Linguistics ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current state of the categories ―linguistic identity‖ and ―national archetype‖ in correlation with the socio-cultural environment. The national and cultural values of any ethno psychological group are reflected in the language serving a real-life community of people. National archetypes are the semiotic basis of linguistic identity, which is formed within a certain socio-cultural context, an inalienable instance of the psychophysical structure of a person. It is argued that the essential characteristics of the national linguistic identity can be detected already at the level of identifying the semantic features of the language units of the utterance in discoursing. The next steps to reconstruct the linguistic personality are associated with modelling the logical-semantic structure of the utterance, due to the presence of ethnocultural traces at all levels of the subject's discourse behaviour. The discourse behaviour of an individual is the essence of his communicative activity and worldview. It was found that behavioural models, modal and nominative ways of reflecting reality are ethnoculturally determined not only by language, but also by immanent preferences in accordance with the logic, semantics and pragmatics of the communicative act. It is suggested that the verbalization of Russian identity (the magic of Russian vocabulary) is preferably carried out within the framework of contact strategies (direct means of expressing thoughts) and in correlation with the values of the national community, and the intellectual parameters of the French language are implemented in line with distant communication strategies (indirect means expressions of thought) and the priority of individual values. Prospects for the application of the method of reconstructing new knowledge in the mainstream of identifying the dominant features of a national linguistic personality in languages of different structures are outlined.
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40. Contrasting Romance and Turkish as Source Languages: Evidence from Borrowing Verbs in Modern Greek Dialects
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Angela Ralli
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Linguistics and Language ,History ,Turkish ,language ,Modern Greek ,Romance ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
In this paper, I deal with verb borrowing in a language-contact situation involving Greek as target and Romance and Turkish as source languages. More particularly, I discuss the reasons and techniques that make verbs of typologically and genetically different languages to be accommodated in a uniform way within the same linguistic system, and verbs of the same donor to be integrated in a different manner within the same recipient. I try to provide an explanation for the observed divergences and similarities by appealing to an interplay of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. For the purposes of this study, evidence is drawn from both written and oral sources from five Greek dialectal varieties: Grekanico, Heptanesian, Pontic, Aivaliot and Cypriot.
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41. SOCIOLINGUISTICS GENDER DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN MEDIA
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Elvira Abdurashitova
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Discourse analysis ,Sociology ,Sociolinguistics ,Linguistics - Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of gender realization in the English-language media discourse as a means of reflecting the changing trends in the concepts of femininity and masculinity. The study is carried out within the anthropocentric approach. The aim of this article is to highlight the theoretical frame of reference for the works included in this article. We intend to delimit the field of study for gender discourse analysis by highlighting the main theories and concepts that ensure its specificity. Interdisciplinary, which is the distinctive feature of gender discourse analysis, marks the evolution of research in this field that we are trying to capture in our proposed retrospective approach. The review of research that configures the domain of gender discourse analysis illustrates the latter relevance in deciphering the meaning of communication as an important qualitative research method in the field of communication sciences. On the other hand, the work identifies the specificity of gender representation in the language of contemporary gender-oriented magazines. The novelty of the paper is determined by the disclosure of the trends of new femininity and masculinity in media discourse. Additionally the media is commonly seen as a potential means of influence, control, and innovation in society. As a result, few significant social issues are addressed without some consideration of the role of the mass media. Gender issues are no exception, as illustrated by the following statement: The purpose of this article is to provide insights on the role of the media in status of men and women’s potential for socio-cultural change. The results show that the gender aspect in media discourse is manifested at the level of vocabulary, grammar and stylistics.
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42. Complex Items and Units in Extra-Sentential Code Switching. Spanish and English in Gibraltar
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Eugenio Goria
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Linguistics and Language ,Computer science ,Code-switching ,Language and Linguistics ,Sociolinguistics ,Linguistics - Abstract
As is well-known, code-mixing is particularly frequent at clause boundaries and with elements expressing pragmatic meaning. However, most of the literature has focussed on switching of simple elements such as conjunctions and discourse markers. This paper, in contrast, analyses clause peripheral switching involving two complex constructions: left dislocations and pseudo-clefts. The data are from English-Spanish bilingual conversations recorded in Gibraltar. A great majority of the bilingual constructions in the corpus belong to a few types occurring with a restricted set of lexical items. A vast amount of such highly recurrent strings in the data confirm the hypothesis that complex multi word strings that are switched together constitute units in code-mixing, i.e. they are processed as single lexical items.
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43. Code-switching and Code Mixing on Vlog: A Sociolinguistics Study
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Betari Irma Ghasani and Emma Asyirotul Umami
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Speech act ,Third person ,Repetition (rhetorical device) ,Computer science ,Active listening ,Code-switching ,Linguistics ,Expression (mathematics) ,Sociolinguistics ,Code-mixing - Abstract
This paper aims for identifying the type of codeswitching and codemixing found on the vlog and recognizing factors causing codeswitching and codemixing. The researchers take data from 14 vlogs of Nurul Taufik themed Jaamiah or Campus. Some steps done in doing the research including listening to the vlog, analysing, and reporting. The result shows that there are 20 data of codeswitching and 52 data of codemixing. All forms of codeswitching belong to extraneous in the form of sentences. Some factors causing code switching are including speakers, interlocutors, the presence of a third person and changes in the topic of discussion. In addition, the form of code mixing is extraneous codes in the form of words, phrases, baster, repetition of words, expressions, and clauses. The cause of codemixing is the speaker's desire to get the “right” expression, and the habits and relaxedness of the speech act participants in communicating.
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44. Dialect Levelling: A Case Study of Ìkàr??-Àkókó Dialect
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Fadekemi Rukayat Umar and Esther Olayinka Bamigbola
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Geography ,indigenous languages ,language contact ,P1-1091 ,variation ,Philology. Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Dialect levelling ,sociolinguistics ,dialect levelling - Abstract
This study investigates the factors that are responsible for the levelling of Ìkàr??-Àkókó dialect. Specifically, the paper examines the impacts of Nigerian indigenous languages, especially Yorùbá, on the dialect. The study aims at identifying the patterns of changes in the dialect and their impacts on the ethnic identities of the people. The work is based on the variationist approach pioneered by William Labov in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The tools used for data collection include questionnaire, oral interview and observation. The findings of the study reveal that the dialect manifests different stages of changes, vital domains like home, school and work place, which are supposed to be the strongholds of this dialect are being encroached upon by languages other than the mother tongue in the study area. It was found that the changes in the dialect are not due to the influence of English language only, but to indigenous Nigerian languages, mostly Yorùbá. It was concluded that the gradual levelling of Ìkàr??-Àkókó dialect is caused in part by restricted domains of use, increase in population; lack of commitment to indigenous language use by the native speakers; and suppressive language policy in the nation. The study recommends sensitization campaigns as a way of maintaining and sustaining the status of indigenous languages.
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45. Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence
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Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa
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Metadata ,History ,Variation (linguistics) ,Perspective (graphical) ,Forensic linguistics ,Applied linguistics ,Functional illiteracy ,Linguistics ,Spelling ,Sociolinguistics - Abstract
Corpora of historical correspondence and their social metadata offers a very useful archival source to carry out studies in Historical Sociolinguistics. However, illiteracy among female population and the subsequent use of scribes make authorship and gender constitute some of the most controversial socio-demographic issues when doing sociohistorical research. Letters might not have been autographs but rather dictated to a scribe, which can lead to the distortion of findings concerning authorship and gender-based patterns, from the perspective of sociolinguistic variation. On the other hand, Forensic Linguistics appeared as a branch of Applied Linguistics to assist the law in legal processes, where authorship elucidation is often one of the most disputed questions. In this paper we will present an overview of the main approaches to authorship attribution within Forensic Linguistics and relate them to sociohistorical data in the case of the letters by Margery Paston, putting their theorical tenets and techniques to the test of time. The data suggests that formal (spelling) features are less indicative of authorship than other morphosyntactic markers. Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics can mutually benefit each other, by sharing their expertise in authorship research and its application to current and historical texts in their social context
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46. ¿El ruido la molesta o El ruido le molesta? Sobre la alternancia dativo/acusativo con los verbos psicológicos en el español de Málaga (nivel culto)
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Francisco Díaz Montesinos
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Construcciones transitivas e intransitivas ,Pronominal clitics ,Clíticos pronominales ,Statistical study ,Lingüística ,Questionnaire ,Humanidades ,Malaga ,Linguistics ,Transitive and intransitive constructions ,Leísmo ,Humanities ,Sociolinguistics ,Sociolingüística ,Modelo mixto ,Málaga ,Cuestionario ,Estudio estadístico ,Mixed Model - Abstract
Este trabajo tiene por objetivo el estudio de los pronombres átonos de tercera persona no reflexivos con los verbos tipo-molestar en el corpus formado mediante un cuestionario a hablantes del nivel culto de la ciudad de Málaga (España). Puesto que Málaga está ubicada en una zona dominada por el sistema distinguidor de caso, resulta interesante conocer a qué obedece la alternancia dativo/acusativo con tal tipo de verbos. Para ello, se exponen primero los principios metodológicos seguidos y se lleva a cabo un estudio estadístico. El resultado más relevante es la constatación de que la concepción del sujeto como agente o no condiciona el uso del caso pronominal y la mayor frecuencia del dativo con objetos referidos a persona masculina que los referidos a persona femenina, pequeña con los sujetos inanimados, pero grande con sujetos humanos., The aim of this paper is to analyse the variable use of third-person unstressed nonreflexive pronouns in a corpus formed by means of a questionnaire for educated speakers in the city of Malaga (southern Spain). Since Malaga belongs to an area where the pronoun case-distinction system prevails, it seems interesting to identify what explains the dative / accusative alternation with such types of verbs. For this purpose, it first presents the guiding methodological principles followed and second a statistical study is carried out. The most striking conclusion is the finding that the conception of the subject as agent or not conditions the use of the pronominal case and the greater frequency of the dative with objects referring to a male person than those referring to a female person, small with inanimate subjects, but large with human subjects.
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47. Officiality and strategic ambiguity in language policy: exploring migrant experiences in Andorra and Luxembourg
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Kristine Horner and James Hawkey
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Linguistics and Language ,Luxembourgish ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Applied linguistics ,Ambiguity ,Language and Linguistics ,language.human_language ,Linguistics ,language ,Language education ,Catalan ,Multilingualism ,Sociology ,Sociolinguistics ,Language policy ,media_common - Abstract
This article examines de jure language officialization policies in Andorra and Luxembourg, and addresses how these are discursively reproduced, sustained or challenged by members of resident migrant communities in the two countries. Although the two countries bear similarities in their small size, extensive multilingualism and the pride of place accorded to the ‘small’ languages of Catalan and Luxembourgish respectively, they have adopted different strategies as regards according official status to the languages spoken there. We start by undertaking a close reading of language policy documents and highlight the ways that they are informed by ‘strategic ambiguity’, wherein certain key elements are deliberately left open to interpretation via a range of textual strategies. We then conduct a thematic analysis of individual speaker testimonies to understand how this strategic ambiguity impacts on the ways that speakers negotiate fluid multilingual practices while also having to navigate rigid monolingual regimes. In given contexts, these hierarchies privilege Catalan in Andorra and Luxembourgish in Luxembourg, particularly in relation to the regimentation of migrants' linguistic behaviour. In this way, the paper provides insights into the complex ideological fields in which small languages are situated and demonstrates the ways in which language policy is intertwined with issues of power and dominance.
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48. The development of locative relative markers: from typology to sociolinguistics (and back)
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Silvia Ballarè, Guglielmo Inglese, Silvia Ballarè, and Guglielmo Inglese
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Typology ,Linguistics and Language ,Hierarchy ,Communication ,Locative case ,Language and Linguistics ,Linguistics ,Focus (linguistics) ,diachronic typology, relative clause, locative relative, language variation, sociolinguistic variation, accessibility hierarchy ,Variation (linguistics) ,Subject (grammar) ,Sociology ,Sociolinguistics ,Relative clause - Abstract
The accessibility hierarchy was first proposed by Keenan & Comrie (1977) to describe the cross-linguistic distribution of relative markers in terms of likelihood of relativization of different syntactic roles. The hierarchy is also commonly believed to reflect constraints on possible changes in the domain of relativization. For example, the hierarchy predicts that locative relatives that develop into general relativizers should expand their functional range in a step-by-step fashion from lower to higher roles. In this paper, we revise existing claims about the diachrony of locative relatives. In doing so, we survey known cases of locative relatives that develop into general relativizers and we also discuss data from linguistic variation in non-standard varieties in European languages, with a focus on social variation in Italian. As we argue, data from Italian suggests that another possible cline of development of locative relatives should be acknowledged, that is, locative > concern > subject.
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49. UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational-linguistics analysis
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Martini, M, Robertson, SL, Martini, M [0000-0002-7532-4814], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Sociology of Education ,Sociology of Government ,Government ,Politics ,Sociology of Knowledge ,FOS: Languages and literature ,General Social Sciences ,FOS: Law ,Linguistics ,Political Sociology ,Law ,compass sections ,sociolinguistics - Abstract
Drawing on empirical data this paper explores how a new articulation of meritocracy has emerged over time in UK Higher Education. To this end, we analyze the five major HE reports produced in the UK over the past 2 decades (1997–2010). The proposed analytical design combines semantic mapping, natural language processing (NLP), and critical discourse analysis to identify the key actors in the sector, the nature of their agency, and changing roles. Despite more rosy accounts of social mobility and democracy in the UK offered by commentators such as Mandler (2020), we argue that higher educational policies in the UK have progressively shifted towards a neoliberal meritocratic paradigm established through: (a) the construction of a conceptual level playing field in the domain of education; and (b) its mobilization as a legitimizing basis of neoliberal meritocracy that selects “effort” as a discriminating variable. Accordingly, we argue that by assuming ontological equality between actors as a hegemonic truth, neoliberal meritocracy both constitutes and legitimates the culture of the new capitalism, and the role of higher education policies in the UK in this.
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50. Dos factores lingüísticos en pugna en la explicación de la tasa pronominal: ambigüedad y tiempo verbal
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Antonio Manjón-Cabeza Cruz
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Ambiguity ,Lingüística ,Ambigüedad ,Sujeto pronominal ,Humanidades ,Linguistics ,Verb tense ,Spanish ,Pronominal subjects ,Español ,Tiempo verbal ,Humanities ,Sociolinguistics ,Sociolingüística - Abstract
En español los sujetos pronominales pueden o no aparecer. La tasa pronominal viene determinada por un complejo conglomerado de factores. Entre estos factores, junto a otros más determinantes, hay dos que son aducidos con mucha frecuencia: la ambigüedad de la forma verbal y el tiempo verbal. En el corpus PRESEEA que manejamos (Granada) hemos detectado una fuerte colinealidad entre ambos factores. Este trabajo se dedica a profundizar en el análisis de esa interdependencia de factores, de modo que concluimos que es el tiempo verbal y no la ambigüedad de la forma verbal lo que influye en realidad en el aumento de la tasa pronominal en el copretérito. Proponemos, pues, que otros investigadores tengan en cuenta estos datos para futuros análisis., In Spanish, pronominal subjects may or may not appear. Pronominal rate is determined by a complex conglomerate of factors. Among these factors, together with other more determinant ones, there are two that are very frequently mentioned: the ambiguity of the verb form and the verb tense. In the PRESEEA corpus (Granada) we have detected a strong collinearity between both factors. This paper is devoted to a deeper analysis of this interdependence of factors, so that we conclude that it is the verb tense and not the ambiguity of the verb form which actually influences the increase of the pronominal rate in the imperfect tense. We therefore propose that other researchers take these data into account for future analyses.
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- 2022
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