Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since inception field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed issues surrounding participation those involved and engaged process. This paper aims reviewing state art outlining critical dimensions aspects with relation participation. We explore previous st...

This paper offers a definition of language iconicity. And it studies it from a fresh perspective--sociolinguistics. The paper discusses it from the following five sections: social class corresponds to language diversity; traditional concept corresponds to word order iconicity and syntactic iconicity; intimity or estrangement corresponds to lexicalization; regional varieties correspond to differ...

SPEAKING THE PART IS BLACK ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE A DETRIMENTTO CLIMBING THE CORPORATE LADDER? A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDYREGARDING BLACK ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE

Background: Differential performance in clinical skills assessments is a widespread phenomenon, for which there remain few explanations. Aim: To better understand the conversational contexts of simulated consultations and how candidates actually behave in these consultations and to determine sociolinguistic factors for highand low-performing candidates. Design & setting: Taking the Membership o...

What we may call ‘the sociolinguistic method’ is neither new to sociolinguistics, nor universally adhered to by sociolinguists, nor-strictly speaking-a method. It is basically a working hypothesis with a distinctive (within linguistics) methodological and concetpual apparatus, built up over the last ten to fifteen years in response to the particular needs of research guided by this hypothesis. ...

BACKGROUND Assessment of consulting skills using simulated patients is widespread in medical education. Most research into such assessment is sited in a statistical paradigm that focuses on psychometric properties or replicability of such tests. Equally important, but less researched, is the question of how far consultations with simulated patients reflect real clinical encounters--for which so...