In order to improve our operationalization of class in sociolinguistic analysis, this paper draws on sociological theory as the foundation for a new approach to the conception and coding of occupation. The 162-speaker dataset is drawn from the larger corpus of sociolinguistic interviews conducted in Raleigh, NC. F1 and F2 measurements for the five front vowels of the SVS were extracted at 25% v...

Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of interand i...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on the effects of modernization, urbanization, monolingual educational system, and mass media as well as the process of globalization on dialect leveling among persian dialects. in so doing, the first part of the paper elaborates on the relationship between globalization and sociolinguistics, and on the concept of standardization. also, it discusses some ...

Aims: The goal of this special issue is to anchor an understanding language variation and change in a relatively newly adopted framework for researching ‘new speakers’ minoritized languages. Approach: This paper first reviews basic principles variationist sociolinguistics as they apply new-speaker contexts before critically engaging with the notion speakerhood. Conclusions: We frame our discuss...

This study discusses gender in Egyptian Arabic proverbs from a sociolinguistic point of view to see the correlation between language and socio-cultural society. The research method used this is combination intralingual, extra lingual, hermeneutic, correlational methods. Based on results analysis, it known that disclosure uses lingual units form words phrases. As for meaning, expression literal ...

In this study we extracted speaker-specific functional expressions from political speeches using random forests in order to investigate speakers’ individual political styles. Along with methodological development, stylistics has expanded its scope into new areas of application such as authorship profiling and sentiment analysis in addition to conventional areas such as authorship attribution an...

The purpose of this study was to explore a sociolinguistic review the use Arabic with communicative approach in Klego Village, East Pekalongan District, City. This research is library and descriptive-analytic nature whose data taken from results excavation searching books other references relevant theme. then were analyzed by deductive comparative methods. indicate that using an aims develop ab...