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...

David Britain has been Professor of Modern English Linguistics at the University Bern in Switzerland since 2010. His research interests embrace language variation and change, varieties (especially Southern Eastern England, Hemisphere, especially New Zealand, Australia Falkland Islands, Pacific, Micronesia), dialect contact attrition, new formation, second acquisition, ideologies use technologie...

What we may call ‘the sociolinguistic method’ is neither new to sociolinguistics, nor universally adhered to by sociolinguists, nor-strictly speaking-a method. It is basically a working hypothesis with a distinctive (within linguistics) methodological and concetpual apparatus, built up over the last ten to fifteen years in response to the particular needs of research guided by this hypothesis. ...

– Education is a goal-oriented field. But if we want to treat education scientifically so we can accumulate, evaluate, and refine what we learn, then we must develop a theoretical framework that is strongly rooted in objective observations and through which different theoretical models of student thinking can be compared. Much that is known in the behavioral sciences is robust and observational...

BACKGROUND Assessment of consulting skills using simulated patients is widespread in medical education. Most research into such assessment is sited in a statistical paradigm that focuses on psychometric properties or replicability of such tests. Equally important, but less researched, is the question of how far consultations with simulated patients reflect real clinical encounters--for which so...

This article surveys current approaches to world Englishes (WE), provides a review of recent critiques of the world Englishes paradigm, and considers the ways in which the theorisation of world Englishes faces new challenges related to the effects of globalisation, as well as possible responses to such changes. This it does specifically by examining the sociolinguistic backgrounds and experienc...

Social connection is a fundamental human need. As such, people's brains are sensitized to social cues, such as those carried by language, and to promoting social communication. The neural mechanisms of certain key building blocks in this process, such as receptivity to and reproduction of social language, however, are not known. We combined quantitative linguistic analysis and neuroimaging to c...