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Interactional sociolinguistics (IS) is an approach to discourse analysis that has its origin in the search for replicable methods of qualitative analysis that account for our ability to interpret what participants intend to convey in everyday communicative practice. It is well known that conversationalists always rely on knowledge that goes beyond grammar and lexicon to make themselves heard. B...

This paper presents a new study of the grammatical and social factors conditioning variable negative concord in Québec French, with a particular focus on the French spoken in Montréal. It has been observed, since at least Daoust-Blais 1975, Lemieux 1985 and Muller 1991, that negative indefinites in certain varieties of French spoken in Canada and in Europe can optionally co-occur with the sente...

Resumo : Este trabalho revisita a proposta de Tarallo, feita em 1987, que observou os resultados pesquisas variacionistas (WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 1968) à luz da Teoria Princípios e Parâmetros (CHOMSKY, 1981), num momento esse modelo começava se desenvolver. A proposta, tida como herética, já Gerativa não olhava, naquele momento, para mudança linguística (e nem deveria olhar, visto buscava de...

(English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In first two parts, I provide some general rationale academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding dirty places raw lives waste, sociolinguists obscure important relations: first, social worlds people who live work with/in waste; secon...

More and more findings suggest a tight temporal coupling between (non-linguistic) socially interpreted context and language processing. Still, real-time language processing accounts remain largely elusive with respect to the influence of biological (e.g., age) and experiential (e.g., world and moral knowledge) comprehender characteristics and the influence of the 'socially interpreted' context,...