This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic communication. In The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing ...

The research of the Sociolinguistics Research Group focuses on how language is embedded in the social context of its use. This includes an interest in the ways in which language varies across time, ...

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As sociolinguistics is such a vast, broad topic, it attracts a myriad of interest from researchers of all disciplines. As we mentioned in the What does Sociolinguistics study? section, different ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics differs from Interactional Sociolinguistics as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured. This structured variation ...

The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) was founded at the University of Bristol in 2005. To travel directly to our main webpage in Salzburg click here. 2015 9th HiSoN Summer School in Metochi ...

because they spoke Chicano English. These types of linguistic misperceptions are among the reasons why sociolinguistics is important to our society. Often, children who speak non-standard dialects ...

Teens are taking slang from the screen to the schoolyard. It’s reshaping the way that they connect with each other and the ...

Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a euphemistic recasting of lying as an inadvertent mistake.

Children trying to spell tricky Spanish words Attempts to make bilingual classrooms illegal defy research in educational sociolinguistics, he warns. "It has been found through careful testing that ...

particularly through methods of field linguistics The study of the following linguistic phenomena in particular: the origin of knowledge, transitivity, negation, questions, classifiers and spatiality ...

The Cherokee Nation held its annual first-language, fluent speaker luncheon Tuesday to honor the tribe’s 1,500 Cherokee ...