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Barr, Regina L. "Sociolinguistics and Bilingualism." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1512423875160549.
Full textBerghoff, Robyn. "Dimensions of space in sociolinguistics." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96056.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Within the social sciences and humanities, adequate definitions and understandings of the concept ‘space’ have been debated for some time. However, until recently, this debate been neglected within linguistics, although it is generally acknowledged that understandings of space within sociolinguistic research specifically have not remained uniform over time. The research presented in this study focuses on the varying conceptions of ‘space’ in the development of variationist sociolinguistics. It specifically seeks to address the lack of a coherent account of the influence that the various dominant conceptualizations of ‘space’ have had on research design throughout the history of the field. Previous work on this topic, which until recently has been relatively scarce, has pointed out some fluctuations in the understanding of space that has been employed within sociolinguistics. Still, these changes over time have not yet been investigated in a systematic and chronological manner. Additionally, previous investigations of the concept ‘space’ in sociolinguistics did not situate themselves within the broader spatial rethinking that has occurred in the social sciences, and thus tend to employ the relevant spatial terminology in isolated and unstandardized ways. The present study examines the conceptualization of ‘space’ in variationist sociolinguistics in a systematic and chronological manner, and situates changes in the understanding of this concept within the so-called “spatial turn” that occurred in the social sciences in the late 1970s/early 1980s. By examining the influential literature within four different variationist sociolinguistic paradigms and identifying the changes in dominant spatial understandings that have occurred over time, the impact of each dominant spatial conception on research design in variationist sociolinguistics is explicated. Ultimately, the study aims to clarify a topic that has previously been treated in largely incomplete and unsystematic ways. By presenting a partial chronicle of the history of ‘space’ in variationist sociolinguistics, the study will moreover serve as a basis for those working in the field to reflect on the directions this relatively young discipline has taken.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Binne die sosiale en geesteswetenskappe is toereikende definisies en begrip van die konsep ‘ruimte’ al vir ’n geruime tyd gedebatteer. Hierdie debat is tot onlangs binne die taalwetenskap afgeskeep, alhoewel dit algemeen erken word dat die begrip van ruimte binne spesifiek sosiolinguistiese navorsing met verloop van tyd verander het. Die navorsing wat in hierdie studie aangebied word, fokus op veranderinge in die konseptualisering van ruimte in die ontwikkeling van variasionistiese sosiolinguistiek. Daar word spesifiek aandag gegee aan die gebrek aan ʼn samehangende beskrywing van die invloed wat verskillende dominante begrippe van ‘ruimte’ gehad het op navorsingsontwerp in die veld se geskiedenis. Vorige werk wat oor dié onderwerp handel, en wat tot onlangs relatief skaars was, het daarop gewys dat daar wel veranderinge was in die manier waarop die begrip ‘ruimte’ binne die sosiolinguistiek gebruik is, maar hierdie veranderinge is nog nie op ʼn sistematiese en chronologiese manier ondersoek nie. Vorige studies van dié onderwerp is ook nie binne die breër ruimte-debat in die sosiale wetenskappe aangebied nie. Daar is dus die geneigheid om die relevante ruimte-terminologie op geïsoleerde en nie-gestandaardiseerde maniere te gebruik. Die huidige studie ondersoek die konsep ‘ruimte’ binne variasionistiese sosiolinguistiek op ʼn sistematiese en chronologiese manier, en plaas veranderinge in die begrip van ruimte in die sosiolinguistiek binne die konteks van die sogenaamde “spatial turn” wat in die laat-1970’s/vroeë-1980’s binne die sosiale wetenskappe plaasgevind het. Deur ʼn ondersoek van invloedryke literatuur binne vier verskillende variasionisties-sosiolinguistiese raamwerke, en die identifisering van die veranderinge in die konseptualisering van dominante ruimte-begrippe wat met verloop van tyd plaasgevind het, word die impak van elke dominante ruimte-begrip op navorsingsontwerp in variasionistiese sosiolinguistiek duidelik gemaak. Die uiteindelike oogmerk van die studie is om duidelikheid te verskaf oor ʼn onderwerp wat voorheen grootliks onvolledig en onsistematies aangespreek is. Deur ’n gedeeltelike kroniek van die geskiedenis van ‘ruimte’ in variationistiese sosiolinguistiek te bied, dien die studie voorts as ’n basis vanwaar taalwetenskaplikes kan besin oor die rigtings waarin hierdie relatief jong dissipline ontwikkel het.
Gonçalves, Cristiane Helena Parré [UNESP]. "O futuro do presente no século XIX: uma análise." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103595.
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Essa tese toma como tema a História da Língua Portuguesa escrita no contexto sócio-cultural do século XIX e constitui como corpus os anúncios publicados nos jornais desse período. Partimos da hipótese de rever o uso do futuro do presente uma vez que o mesmo pode ser substituído por outras formas de empregar esse tempo. Para consecução do objetivo proposto, buscamos fundamentar-nos nos postulados da Historiografia Lingüística e da Sociolingüística visando a entender o homem e as características peculiares existentes na expressão lingüística nacional daquele contexto histórico-ideológico. Detectamos que os primeiros anúncios brasileiros surgiram no início do século XIX, depois da vinda de D. João VI para o Brasil, tendo como objetivo reproduzir as condições da corte portuguesa no país, sendo responsável por inúmeros avanços no campo cultural, entre eles o advento da imprensa nacional. Esses anúncios eram conhecidos como classificados, cujo texto, puramente informativo, assemelhava-se a um aviso, quando não a uma notícia. Observamos, que na primeira metade do século XIX os anúncios apresentam-se bem variados, ora aparecem escritos políticos, editais, conteúdo opinativo,engajado, às vezes satíricos e corrosivos envolvendo questões ideológicas, políticas, morais e, com freqüência, pessoais. Nessa época, podemos ver que o futuro do presente do modo indicativo apresenta-se mais precisamente na terceira pessoa do singular e do plural. Já a partir da segunda metade do século a imprensa é influenciada pela literatura, podendo ser percebida pelo uso da mesóclise, uma linguagem mais elaborada, ou melhor, um recurso estilístico do autor. Época de grandes conflitos e discursos acalorados e impulsionadores de integridade nacional, como tentativa de emancipação do jugo histórico-cultural, imposto pelo povo português, levam...
This paper tells about the Portuguese Language History in the social - cultural context in the nineteenth century and has as the corpus the published ads in the newspapers of that period. We started with the hypothesis of reviewing the use of the future of the present because this one can be substituted by other forms of using this tense. For the consecution of the proposed aim, we tried to have fundamentals in the postulates of the Linguistic historiography and the sociolinguistics aiming to understand the men and the peculiar characteristics of the national linguistics expression of that historic - ideological context. We detect that the first Brazilian ads appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century, after D. João VI came to Brazil, with the propose of reproducing the conditions of the Portuguese royalty in the country, being responsible for several advances in the cultural area, including the beginning of the national media. These ads were known as classifieds, in which the text, informative only, was similar to an advice or just news. We observed that in the first half of the nineteenth century the ads were varied,once politic writings appear, edicts, opinative subjects, engaged, sometimes satiric and corrosive writings involving ideological questions, politics, moral and, frequently personal subjects. In that period, we can see that the future of the present of the indicative way was presented in the third person singular and plural, but in the second half of the century the media was influenced by the literature, being noticed by the use of the mesóclise, a more elaborated language, or in other words, a resource style of the author. Time of great conflicts and hot speeches besides being the impulse of national integrity , as an attempt of emancipation of the historic-cultural judgment, imposed by the Portuguese people, make the news writers... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)
Pellowe, John Nicholas Harley. "Studies in theory and method in sociolinguistics." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/607.
Full textRimmer, Sharon E. "Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative." Thesis, Aston University, 1988. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10279/.
Full textMonte, Alexandre [UNESP]. "Concordância verbal e variação: uma fotografia sociolingüística da cidade de São Carlos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93983.
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Pesquisas sobre concordância verbal de terceira pessoa do plural no português brasileiro têm mostrado que esse fenômeno constitui uma variável lingüística que abrange duas variantes: a presença ou a ausência de marca formal de plural no verbo. A presente pesquisa também analisa esse fenômeno variável partindo da relação sujeito/verbo, objetivando compreender os fatores lingüísticos e sociais que condicionam/determinam a variação lingüística no âmbito da concordância verbal. Dessa forma, adotamos os pressupostos teóricometodológicos da Teoria da Variação e Mudança Lingüística ou Sociolingüística Quantitativa. Os dados foram obtidos de uma amostra de língua falada de uma comunidade periférica da cidade de São Carlos, localizada no interior do Estado de São Paulo. A amostra utilizada é constituída de 20 entrevistas entre informante e documentador. Do total de 1.000 ocorrências de terceira pessoa do plural estudadas no nosso corpus, 753 (75%) não trazem a marca formal de plural nos verbos, sendo que apenas 247 (25%) apresentam a marca formal de plural. Apesar de predominar a não-concordância, os resultados evidenciam que estamos diante de um caso de variação. Dentre os fatores lingüísticos atuantes, destacamos a saliência fônica verbal, o paralelismo formal e a presença/ausência do pronome que relativo. Já, dentre os fatores sociais, a escolaridade se mostrou a variável mais relevante.
Research regarding subject/verb agreement in the third person plural in Brazilian Portuguese has shown that this phenomenon constitutes a linguistic variable that encompasses two variants: the presence or absence of the plural desinence in the verb. The present research also analyses this variable phenomenon f rom the relation subject/verb, aiming to understand the linguist ic and social factors that condit ion/determine such subject/verb agreement linguistic variation. Thus, we have adopted the theoretical/methodological framework called Linguistic Variation and Change Theory or Quantitative Sociolinguistics. The data was obtained f rom a sample of spoken language in a suburban community in the city of São Carlos, located in the interior of São Paulo State. The sample used contains 20 interviews between the informer/ interviewee and the interviewer/researcher. From a total of 1,000 occurrences of the third person plural studied in this corpus, 753 (75%) do not use the plural desinence in the verbs, with only 247 (25%) presenting it . Despite the predominant nonagreement, the results clearly show that this is a variat ion case. Among the prevailing linguist ic factors, we can highlight the phonet ic salience of the verb, the formal parallelism and the presence/absence of the relative pronoun que (that /who/which). Among the social factors, school ing was found to be the most relevant variable.
Ip, pau-fuk Peter, and 葉包福. "The sociolinguistics of triad language in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31220940.
Full textIp, pau-fuk Peter. "The sociolinguistics of triad language in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20842739.
Full textAusten, Martha. "The Role of Listener Experience in Perception of Conditioned Dialect Variation." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu159532560325774.
Full textBouamrane, Ali. "Aspects of the sociolinguistic situation in Algeria." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1986. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=120498.
Full textGabler, Iracema [UNESP]. "Perfil da língua escrita das crianças da vila de Teotônio." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103606.
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O objetivo deste estudo é contribuir para a reflexão a respeito das marcas deixadas pelo meio social no processo de aquisição da língua escrita, através da investigação e da análise das características das variantes lingüísticas utilizadas pelas crianças ribeirinhas rurais. Trata-se de um estudo de caráter qualitativo em que se observou a presença do cotidiano, do meio ambiente, das heranças culturais e das influências externas na produção escrita das crianças. Não tivemos a intenção de avaliar o desempenho quanto ao uso das variedades de prestígio, nem os aspectos formais da produção textual. Interessou-nos observar as marcas do meio social presentes em seus textos, vislumbrando a possibilidade de sugerir às instituições públicas de ensino ações que possam colaborar para o melhor desenvolvimento das habilidades de ler, escrever e interpretar. Para embasar a reflexão e a análise que nos permitiu traçar o perfil da língua escrita daquelas crianças, selecionamos aspectos teóricos de três áreas de conhecimento: Sociolingüística, Psicologia Escolar e Aquisição da Linguagem. O campo para coleta de dados da pesquisa foi a Escola Municipal Antônio Vasconcelos, que atende crianças do ensino fundamental, localizada às margens da Cachoeira de Teotônio (Rio Madeira), na Vila de Teotônio, área rural do município de Porto Velho/RO, onde residem famílias muito tradicionais e de baixíssima renda. A comunidade apresenta significativa multiplicidade cultural e étnica, variedades lingüísticas bem marcadas e nível sócio-econômico-cultural baixo. Esta pesquisa desenvolveu uma reflexão a respeito do processo de aquisição da linguagem e seu uso nesse meio social tão singular, por se tratar de uma comunidade específica, e tão plural, por ser semelhante a tantas outras pelo Brasil afora. Fez-nos entender, também, que as...
The aim of this study is to contribute towards the reflection on the signs left by the social environment during the process of written language acquisition. This will be done through the investigation and analysis of the linguistic characteristics used by the children who live along rivers in the country side. It has been noticed in this very study the presence of the every day life, the environment, the cultural heritage and the external influences in the written production of the kids. We did not intend to evaluate their performance according to the use of prestige ranges, nor the formal aspects of the textual production. We were interested in looking over the signs of the social environment in the children s texts, and we wanted to point out the possibility of suggesting the teaching public institutions some activities that could help a better development of reading, writing and interpretation skills. In order to base the reflexion and the analysis which have let us draw out the written language profile of those children, we have selected some theoretical aspects from three areas of knowledge: Sociolinguistics, School Psychology and Language Acquisition. The site for the collection of the data for the research was Antônio Vasconcelos Council School, which enrolls primary school children, and it is located on the banks of Teotônio Waterfall ( Madeira river ), in Teotônio Village, a rural area of Porto Velho/RO, where very traditional families and in quite poor conditions live. These people present a significant cultural and ethnic multiplicity, very distinguished linguistic ranges and a low socio-economic-cultural level. This research has developed a reflection on the language acquisition process and its use in this social environment, which is so singular in the matter of being a specific community, and so general or plural, as it seems like so many other... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
Wilson, Guyanne [Verfasser], and Dagmar [Akademischer Betreuer] Deuber. "The Sociolinguistics of Singing / Guyanne Wilson ; Betreuer: Dagmar Deuber." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2014. http://d-nb.info/113733021X/34.
Full textTong, Chun-po Cecilia, and 湯珍寶. "Sociolinguistics: issues of language in education in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195327X.
Full textMcGregor, William Graham. "Third person interpretation and the sociolinguistics of verbal communication." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/922.
Full textBolton, Kingsley. "Towards a new sociolinguistics of English in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269954.
Full textTong, Chun-po Cecilia. "Sociolinguistics : issues of language in education in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23472807.
Full textKristensson, Dan. "Examples of Propaganda in Tony Blair's Political Speech : An analysis of the political language used in Tony Blair's speech, dated 5 March, 2004." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-902.
Full textOnyeibe, Anthonia Dumebi. "Globalization and discursive constructions of identity in two generations : the Igbo people of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2017. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/23943/.
Full textCarahaly, Lynn N. "Listener Accuracy in Identifying the Sexual Orientation of Male and Female Speakers." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391614986.
Full textJabeur, M. "A sociolinguistic study in Tunisia : Rades." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379210.
Full textBlack, Lesley Jane. "When is German not a German? representations of identity in life narratives of Russian-Germans /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2006. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=24709.
Full textZumrawi, Fatima Mohamed Ali. "The sociolinguistics of Arabicization : the case of the Khartoum Polytechnic." Thesis, University of Salford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304587.
Full textGurdin, Julie E. "The Dialogic and the Semiotic: Bakhtin, Volosinov, Peirce, and Sociolinguistics." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112128.
Full textHannum, Kathryn Laura. "Sociolinguistic Geographies in Galicia, Spain." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1469615983.
Full textCylke, Virginia Ann. "Language in Social Contexts: An Examination of the Effects of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias on Social Categorization and Interpersonal Behavior." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/CylkeVA2003.pdf.
Full textBodnaruk, Carl. "The Sociolinguistic State of Alemannic Dialects." Thesis, Department of Linguistics, Department of Germanic Studies, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24679.
Full textCharpentier, Dylan T. "Why Dey Talk Like Dat?| A Study of the Status of Cajun English as a Dialect or an Accent." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10622943.
Full textThis thesis empirically asks whether Cajun English, a variety of American English spoken in South Louisiana, is an accent or a dialect. Because dialects are phonologically and syntactically and/or semantically different from a language’s standard form, this thesis examines one feature within each of those domains: the realization of interdental fricatives as stops, the use of perfective aspect on past tense verb phrases, and manner salience in descriptions of motion. In each domain, I ask if Cajun English is different from Standard English and, if it is, if that difference could be attributable to influences of Cajun French.
Rodriguez, Gabriel R. "The Enregisterment of Dialects in Japanese YouTube Comments| A Comparative Analysis." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10788816.
Full textThis study contextualizes the explosive valorization and commodification of dialect in Japan since the 1980s, known as the “dialect boom”, in terms of Japanese social and economic issues and the growing public interest in diversity within Japan. While the dialect boom has been widely studied in sociolinguistics, little work has related it to the growing valorization of diversity, and most recent work has focused primarily on the Kansai dialect. To these ends, I analyze the enregisterment of six Japanese dialects, those of Osaka, Hakata, Nagoya, Aomori, Okinawa, and K?sh?. I analyze a corpus of YouTube comments responding to videos of dialect usage, using stance (DuBois 2007) to break down the social acts that produce enregisterment (Agha 2003). I draw on the theories of indexicality (Johnstone and Kiesling 2008, Eckert 2008) and the discourse analytic concept of dialect performance (Schilling-Estes 1998, Coupland 2007) as guides to interpreting the micro-social interactions I observe, connecting them to a macro-social context through the theories of Standard Language Ideology (Lippi-Green 1997), identity construction (Bucholtz & Hall 2005), and folklorization (Fishman 1987).
I examine evaluations of dialect based on attractiveness, humorousness, intelligibility, folklorization, and country-ness, evaluate their relative prestige by investigating the willingness of speakers to debate dialect performances’ fidelity, and finally examine the political conflicts dialects are implicated in by looking at how they are related to questions of diversity and nationalism. The similarities between evaluations of the dialects of Okinawa and Aomori, particularly in the category of folklorization, suggest that the dialects of Aomori have accrued affective traits of an Indigenous language (such as nostalgia or sentimentality) despite being spoken by members of the ethnic majority. However, the conflicts that arise over the cases of Okinawa and Osaka suggest that the use of dialect as a marker of regional identity is now being integrated into a nationalist Japanese self-image as a country with rich internal diversity. This provides a means by which Japan can engage with the discourses of liberal multiculturalism and diversity without seriously threatening the hegemony of Japanese ethno-nationalism, suggesting a need to reevaluate the past focus on nihonjinron in building critiques of Japanese nationalist ideology.
Dickey, Eleanor. "Greek forms of address : a linguistic analysis of selected prose authors." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386426.
Full textJha, Shailjanand. "Language maintenance and bilingualism in Darbhanga." Thesis, University of York, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358195.
Full textSmith, Jennifer. "Synchrony and diachrony in the evolution of English : evidence from Scotland." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10887/.
Full textAltamimi, Abdulaziz. "The effects of bilingualism on inhibitory control and divergent thinking| Investigating the roles of proficiency and frequency of use." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10137429.
Full textDespite the vast research on the relationship between bilingualism and cognition, no consensus has been reached about the positive impact of bilingualism and how various bilingual parameters may be effective to varying degrees. Thus, the purpose of this research is to examine the effects of bilingualism on inhibitory control and divergent thinking by assigning language learners to groups reflecting different bilingual background experience. To address this issue, 114 second language learners, assigned to three groups based on L2 frequency of use and L2 proficiency, were compared to 38 monolinguals in their performance at the Simon task (inhibitory control test) and the Alternate Uses Test (divergent thinking test). Inhibitory control results demonstrated that the positive effect of bilingualism was only found among the L2 group exhibiting the most frequent and regular use of L2. Findings of the divergent thinking task indicated similar performance across different L2 groups compared to the monolingual group. Results are discussed in light of how frequency of L2 use may improve inhibitory control by engaging similar mechanisms recruited for language control. Light is also shed on how different bilingual variables, such as the age of acquisition, may obscure the advantage of bilingualism on divergent thinking. Implications for this study are its relevance to the larger population of language learners and its contribution to the advancement of our understanding of the research gap surrounding how different linguistic parameters may influence the bilingual advantage.
Aldosaree, Osamh M. "Language attitudes toward Saudi dialects." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10141516.
Full textThe aim of this study is to reveal and analyze language ideologies and stereotypes associated with the three main regional dialects of Saudi Arabia: Najdi, Hijazi, and Janoubi. The research questions were “How do Saudi speakers with different educational levels perceive other regional dialects?” and “Does experience and exposure to other dialects play a role in terms of their perception?” Since college students typically have more opportunities to interact with speakers of different dialects, I hypothesized that their evaluations of other dialects would be different from high school students’ perspectives. The study participants consisted of 66 college subjects and 69 high school subjects; they came from different regional backgrounds. Lambert's Matched-Guise Test (1960) was implemented in order to examine the language attitudes toward these dialects. Interviews were also conducted to probe participants’ reasons and justifications for their judgments and opinions and also to support statistical findings. I found significant difference between college and high school subjects in the measures of five items. High school subjects tended to have a hard time guessing the speaker’s background, which indicates they lack awareness of other dialects. College participants also applied more positive adjectives to Hijazi and Najdi speakers. On the other hand, high school subjects tended to judge the Hijazi speaker as a very slow speaker. In the interviews, I found that college interviewees tended to provide more details than high school interviewees, which showed college participants are more aware of other dialects. This study tried to determine whether or not discriminatory attitudes existed among the participants. The results indicate that certain dialect speakers could be judged negatively based on which dialect they speak, and that there are implications for their social and work lives. This study may help scholars better understand some of the language ideologies held by high school and college students in Saudi Arabia.
Gruszczynska, Anna. "Queer enough? : contested terrains of identity deployment in the context of gay and lesbian public activism in Poland." Thesis, Aston University, 2009. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10924/.
Full textAltabev, Mary. "Judeo-Spanish in the Turkish social context : language death, swan song, revival or new arrival?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.482078.
Full textLi, Wei. "Language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/284.
Full textCorbett, Cecily. "Sociophonetic Accommodation as a Function of Interlocutor Target Language Competence| The Case of New York Dominican Spanish." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10274751.
Full textThis dissertation contributes to the variationist understanding of the process of phonetic accommodation through the analysis of syllable-final consonant weakening in the speech of native speakers of New York Dominican Spanish (NYDS) during their interactions with second language learners of Spanish. The principal objective is to examine the inner workings of the accommodation phenomenon by using Dominican Spanish as a medium. The data analyzed in this dissertation come from conversations between the informants—native speakers of NYDS—and four different interlocutors, one of whom is a fellow native speaker of NYDS and three who are second-language learners of Spanish with varying degrees of Spanish-language competence. Not only does this dissertation help to fill a large gap in the current research regarding the phenomenon of accommodation as it happens in Spanish by analyzing natural speech in dyadic conversations, but it will also track the accommodative process as it happens in real time by taking measurements from various time points during such conversations.
The informants in this study are bilingual first- and second-generation Dominicans currently living in New York, and their interlocutors are one fellow native speaker of NYDS and three second-language learners of Spanish. The L2 Spanish-speaking interlocutors are divided into three categories based on their proficiency in Spanish: Intermediate interlocutors (those who have taken two years of university-level Spanish), Advanced interlocutors (those who have declared Spanish as a major, have studied abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, and have taken four to five years of university-level Spanish) and Superior interlocutors (those who hold advanced degrees in Spanish and teach Spanish classes at the university level). Data are collected through a series of interview-based conversations between each informant and their four interlocutors. Each conversation is divided into three sections and a maximum of 350 contexts in which variation could occur in the articulation of syllable-final consonants /s/, /l/, /r/ and /n/ are extracted from each segment of each recorded conversation. The articulation of each token is impressionistically coded as either weakening or retention based on a series of auditory and acoustic cues. Once coded, the data are input into statistical analysis software for descriptive statistical analyses.
The results from this dissertation study show that during interactions with the most- and least-proficient speakers of Spanish, NYDS speakers nearly exclusively retain syllable-final consonants, but the same speakers frequently weaken final consonants during interactions with fellow NYDS speakers and with mid-proficient nonnative interlocutors. The principal contribution that this dissertation makes to the field of language study is that speakers in fact do meter their use of highly salient, emblematic speech features to navigate social relationships and index their belonging to a given group, both with native and nonnative speakers of the language variety in question. In the general study of language varieties in contact, studies such as these that quantify accommodation in real-time conversations are paramount for furthering the discussion of contact phenomena, such as dialect levelling and cross-dialectal convergence.
Lavender, Andrew Jordan. "Code Switching, Lexical Borrowing, and Polylanguaging in Valencian Spanish| An Analysis of Data From Conversational Corpora and Twitter." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10281503.
Full textThis study examines lexical borrowing, code switching, and polylanguaging in Valencian Spanish to better understand how each is used differently in oral conversation in comparison with online communication on Twitter. This study compares data collected from three published corpora of oral interviews of speakers of Valencian Spanish with data collected from Twitter profiles of individuals residing in Valencia. In each of the sources Spanish is the preferred code into which Valencian material is inserted. A unique feature of data from the published corpora is the high frequency of code switching (CS) into Valencian in instances of reported speech. With regard to frequency, Twitter users switch from Spanish into Valencian, followed by from Valencian into Spanish and then from Spanish into English. On Twitter, the most frequent type of switch found is the tag switch, which includes exhortatives, greetings and farewells, happy birthday wishes, and a variety of other types of tags and other idiomatic expressions used in a highly emblematic fashion as a way of preforming identity. Both intrasentential and intersentential switches also appear online and reflect how discourse might be organized differently online than offline. In looking at lone vs. multiword insertions, the importance of turn taking is noted and instances where speakers are not in a naturalistic conversation evidence traits which influence patterns of CS and polylanguaguing. Additionally, lexical economy is suggested as a motivating factor for CS on Twitter given the platform’s technological limitation of 140 characters per tweet.
Chen, Hoi-ying, and 陳海瑛. "Norms of pronunciation and the sociolinguistics of Cantonese in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31220502.
Full textSteele, Laura June. "Scots and Scottish English : sociolinguistics and education in Glasgow and Edinburgh." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22652.
Full textChen, Hoi-ying. "Norms of pronunciation and the sociolinguistics of Cantonese in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20340242.
Full textPersson, Sandra. "”Mauvefärgad, dissa och tjöta” : Förändring av det språksociologiska textavsnittet i läromedel i svenska." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-43724.
Full textLatimer, Elizabeth. "Variation in the use of prepositions in Quebec French." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30160.
Full textShim, Meridean. "IIs It Really “Fine”?: An Analysis of the Paralinguistic Function of Punctuation in Text Messages." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/831.
Full textFee, Margery. "French Borrowing in Quebec English." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11671.
Full textJohn, Asher. "Two dialects one region a sociolinguistic approach to dialects as identity markers /." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/704.
Full textFung, Man-wai Edward. "The low-falling changed tones in Cantonese and its related sociolinguistic factors /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35281315.
Full textAlzebaidi, Zahra. "The Syntactic Status of NP in Guerrero Nahuatl| Non-Configurationality and the Polysynthesis Parameter." Thesis, California State University, Fresno, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10640664.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the syntactic structure of Guerrero Nahuatl using Baker’s proposed Polysynthesis Parameter (1996). Baker (1996) claims that polysynthetic languages must have common features that aggregate to the concept of the Polysynthesis Parameter, which suggests that polysynthetic languages employ morphology for syntactic functions. Baker (1996) suggests that in polysynthetic languages, &thetas;-roles are assigned through either an agreement relationship (agreement morphemes) or a movement relation (Noun Incorporation). As a result, Baker (1996) claims that polysynthetic languages must be non-configurational due to the flexibility of the word order and the absence of true quantifiers which indicates that all overt NPs are adjuncts. Prior researchers have made competing claims regarding the structure of the Nahuatl languages and Baker (1996) Polysynthesis Parameter. In this thesis, I show that Guerrero Nahuatl is a non-configurational polysynthetic language. I provide data showing that &thetas;-roles are assigned through either an agreement relationship or through a movement relation (NI) as Baker (1996) predicated for polysynthetic languages. I also argue that Guerrero Nahuatl has free word order and no occurring true quantifiers. I provide evidence that all overt NPs are in adjunct positions rather than in actual A-positions. In addition, I show that there is an extensive use of null anaphora, and an absence of reflexive overt NPs.
Clark, Lynn. "Variation, change and the usage-based approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3241.
Full textKnooihuizen, Remco Mathijs. "Minority languages between reformation and revolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3289.
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