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Dec 31, 2014 · Research methods in Sociolinguistics. December 2014; ... to explore their consequences and implications on the research methods used in the field. ... why in the past linguistic studies used to be ...
Variation in the way language is used to express or ‘construct’ particular social identities in particular social contexts has been a recent focus of research, and is especially evident in studies of style. Pragmatic research overlaps with sociolinguistics in the identification of social and cultural patterns for expressing particular ...
May 25, 2023 · The curriculum is designed for students to learn to conduct original research on language use in their peer groups, families, and communities, to investigate language from social-scientific and humanistic perspectives, and to gain appreciation of their own and others' linguistic heritage, and acquire content knowledge in the discipline of linguistics and research methods.
- Walt Wolfram
- 17, Issue4
- 25 May 2023
- Jenny Cheshire – Linguistic Variation and Social Function
- William Labov – New York City
- William Labov – Martha’s Vineyard
- Penelope Eckert – High School Ethnography
- Zimmerman & West – Sex Roles
Who?
Jenny Cheshire is a British Sociolinguist and Professor at Queen Mary University, London. Her research interests include variation and English syntax.
What was she researching?
Cheshire was interested in finding out how frequent nine non-standard features were in adolescents in the Reading variety of English. She focused on the features in the table below.
When?
1982, for a period of 8 months.
Zimmerman and West’s paper“Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation”looks at sex/gender differences within language and conversation. They were investigating the presence of uncooperative interactive features, such as interruptions, in conversation. They wanted to find out whether the sex of conversation participants affected the use o...
From descriptive studies of dialects, to investigations of language variation and change, to analyses of the roles that language or particular linguistic features play in the construction of individual or group identities, these sorts of studies are all sociolinguistic. How does Sociolinguistic Research work?
Apr 28, 2022 · In one such study, CS was used to collect everyday examples of ‘fat talk via direct observations in public spaces’ (SturtzSreetharan et al., 2019, p. 5). In that study, engaging non-linguists in data collection enabled access to real life forms of fat talk instead of accounts of the same phenomenon gathered by researchers, which had been the case in previous sociolinguistic studies on fat ...
Sep 1, 2009 · Being unable to address each point of similarity between sociolinguistics and sociology or to describe research in every tradition that has benefited from sociolinguistic and sociological ...
