This chapter gives an overview of language variation and how the dynamics of language are explored through formal models. It briefly outlines the dimensions over which language structures can vary, then looks at some of the very different ways in which language change has been investigated (sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, evolutionary linguistics). It describes how dynamic models of c...

Language plays an important role in society. As a phenomenon of society, language reflects all the sides of human society naturally. Sexism in language has long been a heat topic in sociolinguistics. By looking at the sexism in English and relating it to the relevant linguistic theories, this paper tries to make an analysis of sexism in the use of language through comparison, induction and exem...

The title of this paper gives a good indication of what I aim to do: I wish to put forward the notion that the linguistic sub-discipline of text linguistics is a kind of umbrella discipline which makes the study of the different disciplines of linguistics more relevant. By this I mean that knowledge of text linguistics should benefit students also when studying syn-tax, semantics, pragmatics. s...

This article examines the intersection of psychometrics and sociolinguists in the testing of English language learners (ELLs); it discusses language, dialect, and register as sources of measurement error. Research findings show that the dialect of the language in which students are tested (e.g., local or standard English) is as important as language as a facet that influences score dependabilit...

This study was aimed at analyzing the sociolinguistic phenomena during implementation of direct method in Arabic language learning PP Al Iman Putri. The used this a case with qualitative approach. results reveal that sociolinguistics contributes to learning, i.e., as is sub-discipline studies related social factors be main provision for students when they pursue their Middle Eastern countries. ...

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...