Sociolinguistics analysis of “Freedom Writer” movie is an the variation language that used in society and cultural. The research objective to analyze differences styles by multicultural as well determine their relationship with level education cultural backgrounds. data source this Freedom Writers Richard La Gravenese, while are spoken dialogue contains word pronunciation, vocabulary selection,...

Abstract This paper presents the project Stimmen fan Fryslân ‘Voices of Fryslân’. The relies on a smartphone application developed to involve local communities in creation speech corpora, particularly lesser used languages. lays out scientific and societal context project, showcases gives an overview results from that attracted more than 15,000 users. Some key methodological issues are consider...

In most English departments at German universities the teaching of practical English phonetics has enjoyed a long and well-established tradition. In more recent times, such courses have not only dealt with the groundwork of English (mostly articulatory) phonetics, but also added relevant aspects of modern phonological theory, sociolinguistics and dialectology. Since the availability of language...

Abstract This opinion piece discusses how research on language ideologies (or, for that matter, of communication in general) relates to micro/macro distinctions both the field and discipline sociolinguistics. Starting off from thesis object strand at stake here do not neatly fit this dichotomous distinction, paper Fishmanian origins as well diverse diverging definitions micro- macro-sociolingui...

0. Introduction Semantic changes have been scientifically studied for more than 150 years (Ner-lich 1992). All along this history, successive generations of scholars have adopted at least three different theoretical frameworks (Magué 2005). Chronologically, the first trend focused on the identification of the different kinds of semantic changes a lexeme can undergo. This taxonomist trend culmin...

The advent of Early Modern Dutch (starting ∼1550) marked significant developments in language use in the Netherlands. Examples include the loss of the case marking system, the loss of negative particles and the introduction of new vocabulary. These developments typically lead to a lot of variation both within and between language users. Linguistics research aims to characterize and account for ...

The variable rule program is one of the predominant data analysis tools used in sociolinguistics, employed successfully for over three decades to quantitatively assess the influence of multiple factors on linguistic variables. However, its most popular current version, GoldVarb, lacks flexibility and also isolates its users from the wider community of quantitative linguists. A new version of th...

Within sociolinguistics, perspectives to multilingualism have changed considerably during the last decades. At same time, along ‘multilingual turn’ in sociolinguistics and language education studies, number of available concepts discuss multilingual repertoires practices has increased very quickly. Notions such as translanguaging plurilingualism entered linguistic parlance yet actual nature cha...