Abstract This paper traces the changing perceptions of language in sociolinguistics. These are reviewed terms its verbal forms, and vis-à-vis as a multimodal construct. In reviewing these perceptions, this examines different concepts or approaches By trends thoughts applications, article intends to shed light on ontological issues such what constitutes language, where place is practices Expandi...

OBJECTIVE To identify characteristics of consultations that do not conform to the traditionally understood communication 'dyad', in order to highlight implications for medical education and develop a reflective 'toolkit' for use by medical practitioners and educators in the analysis of consultations. DESIGN A series of interdisciplinary research workshops spanning 12 months explored the socia...

The four papers in this issue of the journal are jointly focused on two distinct themes: sociophonetics—the study of speakers and listeners’ sensitivity to the social context in which language is produced and perceived—and exemplar theory, as a way of explaining this behavior. In these comments, I will try to relate the findings in the first area to the field of sociolinguistics, and then relat...

This paper describes the techniques used by the system presented at the TweetLID shared task for Twitter language identification. The system is based on Support Vector Machines and Rational Kernels. An algorithm for multilanguage labeling is described. Its evaluation and application to Sociolinguistics is also included.

Theoretical framework: ŸSociolinguistics (Labov, Chafe, Biber, etc.) ŸConversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson, Wooffitt, etc.) ŸIntonational Analysis (Pierrehumbert, Beckman, etc.) Diverse units in spontaneous speech: Ÿspeech act Ÿidea unit Ÿinformation unit Ÿintonation unit, intonational phrase, tone group Ÿprosodic unit, prosodic phrase, prosodic group, prosodic utterance Ÿbreath g...

This research is entitled “The Value of Idiolect in Sociolinguistics Studies”; it an attempt at introducing the concept, scope and limits functions idiolect studies. The importance lies fact that up to now no specified scientific work has been done about Kurdish language, this despite mostly dealt with wrongly. divided into two chapters: first chapter dedicated presenting principles as related ...