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John C Paolillo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the virtual speech community social network and language variation on irc
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2006Co-Authors: John C PaolilloAbstract:Many scholars anticipate that online interaction will have a long-term effect on the evolution of language, but little linguistic research yet addresses this question directly. In Sociolinguistics, social network relations are recognized as the principal vehicle of language change. In this paper, I develop a social network approach to online language variation and change through qualitative and quantitative analysis of logfiles of Internet Relay Chat interaction. The analysis reveals a highly structured relationship between participants’ social positions on a channel and the linguistic variants they use. The emerging sociolinguistic relationship is more complex than what is predicted by current sociolinguistic theory for offline interaction, suggesting that sociolinguistic investigation of online interaction, where more detailed and fine-grained information about social contacts can be obtained, may offer unique contributions to the study of language variation and change.
Médéric Gasquet-cyrus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The accents of Marseille : perception and linguistic change
2016Co-Authors: Médéric Gasquet-cyrusAbstract:Arguing for the combination of urban Sociolinguistics, perceptual dialectology, and ethnographic approaches, this text focuses on how the perceptions of city dwellers are shaping both the sociolinguistic landscape and the ongoing linguistic change in a major Euromediterranean town.
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Changements urbains et conflits sociolinguistiques : l'impact de la gentrification sur le français de Marseille
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2015Co-Authors: Médéric Gasquet-cyrusAbstract:Combining urban Sociolinguistics (Calvet, 1994; Gasquet-Cyrus, 2002), critical Sociolinguistics (Blommaert, 2005; 2010; Boutet & Heller, 2007) and ethnographic approaches, this text focuses on how the social and urban changes occurring in Marseille since the beginning of the 21st century are shaping both an ongoing linguistic change and latent or manifest urban conflicts, where the issues of language are above all issues of identity and power. As France's second largest town and the European Capital of Culture in 2013, Marseille is well-known for what is considered the most famous accent in the country, the so-called 'Marseille (working-class) accent', prototype of the 'Southern' or 'Provençal' accent and often opposed to a more affected or stiff 'Parisian' accent (Kuiper, 2005). But beyond the traditional centre-periphery rivalry, internal conflicts in Marseille are revealing of more complex sociolinguistic issues. Previous studies have outlined the existence of at least three “accents” associated with specific areas of the town (Binisti & Gasquet-Cyrus, 2003) and with different symbolic values already into conflict (Gasquet-Cyrus, 2009). But very recently, urban policies aiming at the regeneration of the inner-city have attracted new inhabitants, whose socio-cultural and socio-economic profiles unbalance the traditional sociolinguistic patterns. The emergence of a new category of city-dwellers, the 'neo-Marseillais', associated with a “new way” of speaking challenging local customs, has shed light on new processes of perception, linguistic change and urban conflict. These different urban language conflicts will be reviewed, and particular attention will be paid to the process of gentrification of space and its linguistic correlates, i.e. “gentrification of speech” (Trimaille & Gasquet-Cyrus, in press), and to the agonistic dimension of these contacts. Finally, the paper will argue for a theoretical framework combining urban Sociolinguistics and critical Sociolinguistics in order to raise —through the study of linguistic change and conflicts in urban setting— issues of identity and power.
Andrea Deumert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the unbearable lightness of being bilingual english afrikaans language contact in south africa
Language Sciences, 2005Co-Authors: Andrea DeumertAbstract:Abstract This paper discusses McCormick’s sociolinguistic study Language in Cape Town’s District Six [McCormick, K., 2003. Language in Cape Town’s District Six. Oxford University Press, Oxford] and locates it within the fields of South African Sociolinguistics and language contact studies. McCormick’s work raises pertinent questions about sociolinguistic historiography, fieldwork methodology, bilingualism, (socio-)linguistic meaning, and the permeability of linguistic boundaries in language contact. McCormick approaches bilingual speech first and foremost from a code-switching perspective, broadly combining Myers-Scotton’s markedness model with conversation–analysis approaches (Gumperz/Auer). However, there is also evidence in the data that conversational language use in this bilingual working-class community can be interpreted within the framework of mixed languages and bilingual convergence. This raises important questions about norm formation and stabilization in language contact situations, and about the diachronic trajectories of bilingual speech.
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Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch
2004Co-Authors: Andrea DeumertAbstract:Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical Sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.
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A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics
2004Co-Authors: Joan Swann, Theresa Lillis, Andrea Deumert, Rajend MesthrieAbstract:The first comprehensive dictionary of the field of Sociolinguistics, this is a valuable reference book for students and teachers of Sociolinguistics, others concerned with the socially-oriented study of language and those with a professional interest in language. Entries are concise, the style is reader-friendly and numerous cross-references enable readers to follow up links to related terms and concepts. Sociolinguistics is characterised by increasing heterogeneity, and students are faced with a proliferation of theories, concepts and terminology. This is sometimes a minefield, with similar terms used rather differently within different academic traditions. The dictionary provides a broad coverage of Sociolinguistics, including macro- and micro-Sociolinguistics and a range of approaches within variationist, interactional, critical and applied traditions. In explaining sociolinguistic terminology, the dictionary is able to map out the traditions and approaches that comprise Sociolinguistics and will thus help readers find their way around this fascinating but complex subject. The authors have taught and researched widely across different areas of Sociolinguistics.They also draw on their experience of working in different geographical areas, including the USA, UK and Europe, Australia, southern Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Features: *Covers topics relevant to a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, sociology and education as well as linguistics *Organised alphabetically with terms explained in a non-technical way *Includes an extensive bibliography.
E. Chernobrovkina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Сombining Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies in Sociolinguistic Research
Modern Communication Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Чернобровкина, E. ChernobrovkinaAbstract:The article deals with the methodology of current Sociolinguistics. The author considers main disciplines of Sociolinguistics, reviews the notions of quantitative and qualitative methods used in sociolinguistic studies and dwells upon a present tendency to employ mixed methods which combine the advantages of both methodological approaches.
Nikolas Coupland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
2016Co-Authors: Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi, Christopher N. CandlinAbstract:Sociolinguistics and Social Theory brings together new critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action. A wide range of theoretical and methodological traditions are represented: variationist and ethnographic Sociolinguistics, conversation and interaction analysis, discourse analysis, social semiotics and ideological linguistics, as well as sociology and social theory itself. The book proposes a new agenda for sociolinguistic theory, in the broadest sense, and debates the theoretical grounding of different research methods. Contributors include Frederick Erickson, David Graddol, Christian Heath, Monica Heller, John Heritage, Gunther Kress, Per Linell, Michael Lynch, Miriam Meyerhoff, Lesley Milroy, Jonathan Potter, Ben Rampton, Celia Roberts, Richard Watts, John Wilson and Ruth Wodak.
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sociolinguistic authenticities Sociolinguistics and authenticity an elephant in the room
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003Co-Authors: Nikolas CouplandAbstract:'A. veut montrer que la sociolinguistique s'est engagee fortement sur le concept d'authenticite applique a certaines langues et certains locuteurs. Il recapitule un ensemble de cinq qualites attachees a l'authenticite dans son acception traditionnelle en sociolinguistique, ce qui lui fournit un cadre theorique pour decrire differentes orientations linguistiques
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Introduction: Sociolinguistic theory and the practice of Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics, 1Co-Authors: Nikolas CouplandAbstract:Theory and practice Theory and practice are terms that are often set in opposition to each other, but not for very good reasons. This is a book about theory, but it is not a book that is, one might say, ‘couched in abstractions with little relevance to the real world of language use’. Who needs theory, if that's what theory is? On the contrary, theory is about what we see and experience in the social world of language, and about how we impute meaning to actions. As language users, we are all theorists, although the discipline of Sociolinguistics has particular responsibilities in fostering, through its theory, awareness of what happens at the interface between language and society, and in reviewing what we know and what we have not yet adequately explained. So this is actually a book about practice too – practices of using language and practices of interpreting language in society. My main task in the chapter is to set the scene for the nineteen chapters that follow; I introduce the chapters and the structure of the volume in the second half of this chapter. Before that it may be useful to comment in quite general terms on ‘theory’, and then on ‘sociolinguistic theory’, the object of debate in this volume, and its historical status in the field. That will lead to an overview of the types of theory that Sociolinguistics has aligned with to date, and might profitably align with in the future. This is a necessary debate in itself, especially if it is right to observe that Sociolinguistics has entered a phase where ‘theory is everywhere’ and that this is radically influencing what Sociolinguistics is and what it does. But we are also arguably in a phase where discussion of what counts as theory, and why it matters in so many practical regards, is still generally lacking. In other words, we need to keep revisiting some basic meta theoretical questions about Sociolinguistics, following a line of reflexive commentary started by Figueroa over twenty years ago. Figueroa (1994) set out the different principles and assumptions that supported the research of three of the ‘founding fathers’ of Sociolinguistics, Labov, Gumperz, and Hymes.
