Focusing on issues of class identity, this paper explores the relationship between sociolinguistics and Raymond Williams’ view hegemony as “relations domination subordination… [that saturate] whole process living…: Our senses assignments energy, our shaping perceptions ourselves world” (1977: 109-110). It assesses kinds insight afforded in both variationist interactional sociolinguistics, then ...

This is a sociolinguistic study investigating the variation of phonological variable (ðˤ) in Al-Wahadneh town Jordan where Christians and Muslims live together peacefully harmoniously. The has two variants: traditional [ðˤ] an innovative [dˤ]. main objective this to examine if religion statistically significant social factor relation question. data elicited from recorded interviews analysed via...

Abstract This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city eastern Germany, over past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on ways which semantic choices streetscape are recruited to canonize traces national “supportive hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate from variationist sociolinguistics,...

Abstract It is widely accepted that internal constraints on variation are not modulated by social and stylistic factors (e.g., Labov, 2010:265). Is this also true for register differences as a special type of sociostylistic factor? To address question, we investigate future temporal reference (FTR) in English ( It'll be fun versus It's gonna ) via variationist corpus study n = 2,600 tokens) sup...

INTRODUCTION During the past decade, several scholars in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, and bilingualism have addressed the influence of gender on access to linguistic and interactional resources, on dynamics of classroom interaction, and on language learning outcomes (Ehrlich, 1997; Norton, 2000; Pavlenko, 2001; Pavlenko et al., 2001; Sunderland, 2000). The fiel...

Based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics, this study aims to analyze variation relativization strategies in popular speech city Fortaleza-CE. The transmitted data were extracted from 54 informants sociolinguistic descriptions DID type (Dialogue between Informant and Documenter), belonging database Projeto Norma Oral do Português Popular de Fortaleza (...

Over the past few years I have been engaged in a collaborative research project examining a collection of sociological interviews with ten adolescent African American girls in Washington, DC (Froyum Roise 2004; Kendall 2009; Mallinson & Kendall forthcoming). A major thread of our work with these recordings has focused on assessing the degree and manner to which these recordings, conducted by th...

This paper investigates the use of reduplicated English elements as aspects Nigerian usage in speech events among participants Calabar, a multilingual city Southern Nigeria. The study adopts Variationist Sociolinguistics and Sociopragmatic Competence theoretical foundations because both account for occurrence variation semantic change resulting from interference L1 other factors. data were gene...

An individual’s social network is straightforwardly the aggregate of relationships contracted with others, and social network analysis examines the differing structures and properties of these relationships. Such analysis has been applied by variationists fairly extensively over the last two decades or so to explicate informal social mechanisms supporting language varieties specific to particul...

Language change results from the differential propagation of linguistic variants distributed among the linguistic repertoires of communicatively interacting individuals in a given community. From this it follows that language change is socially-mediated in two important ways. First, since language change is a social-epidemiological process that takes place by propagating some aspect of communic...