An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
By Sharon K. Deckert, Caroline H. Vickers. 2011
1. Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Society and Identity 2. Identity as a Central Theme in Linguistics 3. Language Variation 4. Language Development 5. Language and Social Interaction 6. Language Ideology 7. Language, Power Macro-societal Issues 8. Sociolinguistics: Methods and Approaches Bibliography Index.
Subfields: Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- Experience Grounds Language (2020, background): “Language in a Social Context Whenever language is used between two people, it exists in a concrete social context: status, role, intention, and countless other variables intersect at a specific point (Wardhaugh, 2011).”
- A Model for Framing Mobile Learning (2009, background): “When a participant neglects to follow one or more of the rules, miscommunication may occur (Wardhaugh 1986).”
- The representation of gender in English textbooks in Uganda (2012, background): “Language is an important aspect of gender (Connell 2008, 9) through which individuals make sense of their ideas and feelings about the world (Holmes 2008, 339; Mineshima 2008; Montgomery 1995, 223).”
- The influence of language differences on power dynamics in multinational teams (2017, background): “These findings invoke the long-standing sociolinguistic research tradition about T-V distinction and other structural differences between languages (see e.g. Lambert & Tucker, 1976; Philipsen & Huspek, 1985; Dewaele, 2004; Wardhaugh, 2006).”
- Predicting In-Game Actions from Interviews of NBA Players (2019, background): “Language usage seems to be informative about the speaker’s current state of mind (Wardhaugh 2011) and his personality (Fasold and Stephens 1990).”
- Teachers' Code-Switching to the L1 in EFL Classroom (2010, background): “People can and should shift, as the need arises, from one code to another [4].”
- Why Gender and Age Prediction from Tweets is Hard: Lessons from a Crowdsourcing Experiment (2014, background): “Younger people and retired people use more non-standard forms (Holmes, 2013).”
- Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Students towards learning English as a Second Language: A Case Study (2011, background): “Learners with positive attitudes towards L2 are more at an advantage compared to those with negative attitudes (Holmes, 1992; Littlewood, 1984; Spolsky, 1969; Norlida, 1997).”
- Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey (2016, background): “Being involved in communicative exchange can be functional for the transfer of information, but at the same it functions as a staged performance in which users select specific codes (e.g., language, dialect, style) that shape their communication (Wardhaugh 2011).”