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Showing 1 to 20 of 332 for “"sociolinguistic"”.
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Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative.
This thesis begins with a sociolinguistic correlational study of three phonetic variables - (h), (t) and (ing) - as used by four occupational groups - nurses, chefs, hairdressers and taxi-drivers. The groups were selected to incorporate three independent variables: sex (male-dominated versus …
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Sociolinguistic Patterns in Turkish Address
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Red Lake Falls, Minnesota: A sociolinguistic survey
… community and the survival of the language pose sociolinguistic questions concerning the status of the language in the community, the users of the language, and the situations in which it is used. The center of this study is a survey which will provide a basis for describing the linguistic …
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Siraiki : A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Desertion.
… models that attempt to account for this complex sociolinguistic phenomenon. This research has educational and social implications and makes a theoretical and methodological contribution to the field of sociolinguistics. It is hoped that it will raise the awareness of Pakistanis in general and …
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A Sociolinguistic Study in Saḥam, Northern Jordan
This is a sociolinguistic investigation that examines variation in the use of two Ḥōrāni traditional features in the dialect of Saḥam in Jordan. The first sociolinguistic variable is (U). Traditional northern Jordanian Ḥōrāni dialects generally prefer [u] to [i] in words such as: zubde …
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The linguistic situation in Kirkuk:a sociolinguistic study
… linguistic situation in Kirkuk end of relevant sociolinguistics in general, and the theoretical Framework, have been discussed in detail in order to provide background to this study which is mainly concerned with the Following areas: 1. The relationships existing between ethnic background and …
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Variation in Standard Persian: A Sociolinguistic Study
… The secondary objective is to investigate the sociolinguistic properties of two social dialects of Persian in Tehran, which until now have gone virtually undescribed: Jaheli and Armenian Persian.
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Some Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact in Thailand
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Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow
… This study is an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic account of Glaswegian Vernacular which examines the nexus of language, identity, and violence using data collected from a group of working-class adolescent males from a high school in the south side of the city between 2005 – 2008, …
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Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint -Louis, Senegal
… lexical borrowing in the field of linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Above all, this study provides a window on the abiding theoretical problem of the study of lexical borrowings as sociolinguistic variables.
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Text analysis of persuasive business writing: A sociolinguistic perspective
… research in text analysis. A current issue in sociolinguistics is the development of a model for discourse analysis and the practicality of implementing that model. Models posited by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and William Grabe (1985) identify the levels of representation as surface and deep, an …
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Sociolinguistic effects of mobility: Iranian Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
This dissertation investigates the sociolinguistic effects of mobility. I mainly focus on three analytic dimensions of language use: (a) migration discourses; (b) language ideological discourses; and (c) sociolinguistic grammars, and claim that these three dimensions collectively present a …
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English and Afrikaans in District Six : a sociolinguistic study
This is a descriptive study of the use of English and Afrikaans in Cape Town's District Six - a large inner-city neighbourhood, first settled in the 1840s and, by the implementation of a series of laws, depopulated and almost entirely razed during the 1970s. Each language has a history of having …
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Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question of Power
Ethnographic methods were used to examine the sociolinguistic dimensions of female nurse practitioner interactions with female patients. The purpose was to provide a contextual account of the discursive practices used by the nurse practitioners during routine office visits with female patients. …
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dzongkha: Variation inFinal Nasals and Rhotics
This first quantitative sociolinguistic analysis of Dzongkha (Bhutan’s official language), as spoken by residents of the capital Thimphu, investigates variation and change in two salient and traditional linguistic features: syllable-final nasals (N) and postvocalic rhotics (R). Thimphu is Bhutan’s …
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Two Hōrāni Features in Sūf, Jordan
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation in the traditional dialect of Sūf, a Hōrāni town in northern Jordan. Two variables are examined: (k): depalatalization of /k/; and (l): develarization of /l/, according to internal linguistic constrains and two external social factors: namely age …
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Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation.
… from linguistic typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, contextualised by a sociohistorical account of the Indonesian sign community. The grammatical domains of completion and negation are analysed using a corpus of spontaneous data from two urban centres, Solo and Makassar. Four …
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Gender in Natural Conversation and Literary Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study
These results are argued to have significance for gender and language research, and particularly for the models used to explain the basis of gender-based language differences. I show unlike the DOMINANCE and CULTURAL DIFFERENCE models, only the SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST model fully accounts for my …
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