SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY

Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey

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...

0 - 521 - 87611 - 7 - A Linguistic Geography of Africa

More than forty years ago, Joseph Greenberg (1963) demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct genetic phyla, or families as he called them, namely Niger-Congo (or Kongo-Kordofanian), Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan. For subsequent generations of Africanists, this classification has served as a reference system to describe the relationship patterns among Afr...

Dialect Contact, Dialectology and Sociolinguistics~

A central probletn in considering the subjects of sociolinguistics and dialectology has to do with the relationship between these two topics, which has often been somewhat dlflcult and controversial. Is, for example, dialectologj part of sociolinguistics, or is it a separate discipline? Once their relative status and complementar): nature have been discussed, the ultimate goal of this article i...

Sex, Sound Symbolism, and Sociolinguistics

Signaling and Simulations in Sociolinguistics

Along with game theory, the emerging science of networks has given us a framework for analyzing social systems plausible to both intuition and implementation. As an interaction structure in computer simulation models, social networks provide a way to envision phenomena like information spread, dialect formation, and language change in a more robust way. In this sense a multitude of sociolinguis...