Being Trilingual is no longer a strange phenomenon as it may have been sometime back. In fact, in urban settings Kenya, children are learning English third language (L3) rather than second (L2). Canale and Swain (1980) propose that communicative competence comprises four competencies, namely: Linguistic, Sociolinguistic, Strategic, Discourse competencies Of concern this study the sociolinguisti...

We present a methodology based on topic modeling that can be used to identify and quantify sociolinguistic differences between groups of people, and describe a regression method that can disentangle the influences of different attributes of the people in the group (e.g., culture, gender, age). As an example, we explore the concept of personal values, and present a cross-cultural analysis of val...

Linguistic geography and sociolinguistics have been widely employed among dialectologists in postwar Japan. Over the last ten years, computer-processing of field survey data has become more and more common. The author originally developed the GLAPS processor to produce linguistic atlases by computer. GLAPS has since been modified to ,produce glottograms and crosstables and to handle sociolingui...

Much sociolinguistic research discusses differences between male and female language. In this paper we consider the language of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), studying if and how non-standard typography depends on the gender of the writer. We distinguish two kinds of non-standard typography that are typical of IRC users: technology-conditioned and voluntary. Our results show that use of non-standar...