In the earlier study “Code-Switching and Optimal Grammar of Bilingual Language Use” in 2011, we present a unified account language use multilingual communities using key insight OPTIMIZATION to capture variations between communities. This paper explores extensions implications our optimality-theoretic model grammars. We provide evidence indicating that vast array empirical facts bilingual (code...

Abstract The correlation between external factors such as age, gender, ethnic group membership and language variation is one of the stalwarts sociolinguistic theory. repertoire individual members speaker groups, vis-à-vis community-wide variation, represents a somewhat slippery ground for developing testing models change has been researched with reference to accommodation (Bell 1984), style shi...

Abstract The findings of this study relate primarily to the processes globalization that directly affect linguistic shift and present a threat extinction cultures languages peoples world. article is based on results sociolinguistic research conducted in 2021 by authors Eveno-Bytantaiskii National District Republic Sakha (Yakutia). aim situation settlement Tiugiasirs, where Sakha, Russian (predo...

This article provides a survey of some data collection techniques employed in the analysing of social variation and language use. An outline of the methodology applied in early dialect studies and sociolinguistic interviews will be followed by a discussion of polling techniques including new and innovative rapid surveys used in data collecting. In addition, some of the findings obtained through...

Sociolinguistic competence is still classified as not good. This study aims to find patterns of sociolinguistic in terms self-concept Dilema Based Learning bentuk. The used was a mixed method with concurrent embedded design. conducted fifth grade students at Cipocok Berhasil Public Elementary School Serb Banten. type research information obtained from pre- and post-tests, questionnaires, interv...

The paper presents ORAL2008, a new 1-million corpus of spoken Czech compiled within the framework of the Czech National Corpus project. ORAL2008 is designed as a representation of authentic spoken language used in informal situations and it is balanced in the main sociolinguistic categories of speakers. The paper concentrates also on the data collection, its broad coverage and the transcription...

There are various ways in which religious affiliation can present itself as a sociolinguistic variable in Arabic dialects. The best-documented case is probably that of Baghdadi Arabic, in which Blanc (1964) reports that three “communal dialects” exist (or existed, until virtually all Jewish Iraqis emigrated westward) – the mainstream Muslim koiné, and a Christian and Jewish variety, which share...

The notion of the speech community has been one of the key concepts in sociolinguistics since its beginning, and yet at the same time remains one of the least satisfactory. This paper examines data from urban Jamaican Creole to shed light on it, in the process taking into account problems that have been raised by other Caribbean creolists in dealing with what Lawrence Carrington has aptly dubbe...

1 . The present paper presents an original interdisciplinary study of style-shifting in literary translation, which draws upon methodologies and techniques from corpus stylistics and computational stylometry, and relevant sociolinguistic theories of style variation. Such an innovative approach to the literary translator’s idiosyncratic use of language sets out to address one of the most difficu...