Recently in sociolinguistics, the Implicit Association Task (IAT) has been used to test implicit linguistic awareness and attitudes. With the advent of this methodology, studies have been acutely concerned with the relationship between implicit measures such as the IAT and other more explicit measures. While prior studies have found a relationship between implicit and explicit awareness of vari...

Motivation: mapping influence from linguistic accommodation Question: Who influences whom in a conversation? • The influence relations are usually implicit in social interactions. Can we infer them from “who said what at what time”? (availability of many transcript data) • Existing approach — modeling the dynamics of turn-taking behavior, i.e. “who speaks next?” (e.g. you are influencing me if ...

this essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. to analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

naming as an inseparable sign of a country’s language has attracted the attention of many linguists to formulate and test hypotheses regarding the culture and language of the people of a certain area. iran appears like a proper destination for conducting a research focusing on naming based on several factors such as geography or chronology. the present article aims to take a specific look at th...

On September 8–10, 2022, the VI International Scientific Conference of Commission on Sociolinguistics, accredited to Committee Slavists, from series “Slavic languages in a Sociolinguistic Aspect” was held at Faculty Philology Vilnius University. The conference organized by Centre Polish Studies VU. 71 reports discussed most pressing problems sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, cognitive linguis...

Although developmental sociolinguistics is a relatively under-researched field, several studies have described children’s use of sociolinguistic variables and some have suggested theoretical accounts for the learning mechanisms underpinning their acquisition. Taking a historical point of view, this paper aims firstly to provide an exhaustive review of the studies focused on phonological variabl...

The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal verb structures across 20 Chinese languages compares them with another 43 from the Sino-Tibetan family. methods employed are internal external historical reconstruction correlation studies linguistic sociolinguistics. results show that head-final tendency is a baseline family, but individual differ by degree he...

The article deals with the sacred groves of the Balts in Lithuania and presents the linguistic background, the historical documents from the 12th– 18th century, the key folklore motifs of the topic, as well as selected examples of groves. The article also discusses possible relationships between pre-Christian religious traditions connected with the sacred groves and the ones which have survived...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...