Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language. In this article we present a survey of the emerging field of ”computational sociolinguistics" that reflects this increased interest. We aim to provide a comprehensive overview of CL r...

In the 2001 volume entitled The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages, edited by Ceil Lucas (Cambridge University Press), it is stated that, since the early 1980s, “the field of sign language sociolinguistics has virtually exploded. There is work to report on from all of the major areas of sociolinguistics: multilingualism, bilingualism and language contact, variation, discourse analysis, language...

Sociophonetics integrates principles, techniques, and theoretical frameworks from phonetics with those from sociolinguistics. Early work under this label typically involved applications of standard phonetic methods – vowel formant analysis, for example – to ‘sociolinguistic’ data, such as socially-differentiated corpora of speech, or to non-standard dialects of widely-spoken languages. In that ...

L’objectiu de l’obra Catalan Sociolinguistics. State of the Art and Future Challenges és donar compte, manera sumària, dels grans vèrtexs en què s’ha manifestat l’estudi la relació entre llengua i societat comunitat lingüística catalana, recepció que fet plantejaments internacionals l’adaptació domèstica.Cada tradició sociolingüística ha interpretat interacció esmentada amb específics. La per e...