The STRATAS project studies language change by developing tools that enable us to ask questions that have until now been too labour-intensive to answer. These tools are being developed by computer ...

This module provides an in-depth investigation of linguistic variation as a social phenomenon. Building on the knowledge acquired in LIN404 Introduction to Sociolinguistic Variation, we identify the ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics differs from Interactional Sociolinguistics as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured. This structured variation ...

My research is primarily based in the camp of sociolinguistics with extensions to second- and heritage-language acquisition/development, phonetics/phonology ...

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, director of the VARIENG National Centre of Excellence 2001–2005 and 2006-2011, and Academy Professor ...

The multimodal construction of affective stance in ASMR performance media Over the past decade, a novel genre of performance has arisen among online communities devoted to the experience of Autonomous ...

This book by Janet Holmes offers an easy-to-understand overview of what sociolinguistics is and why Sociolinguists study the topic. It also goes further into the relationship between sociolinguistics ...

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This paper offers a general study of a relatively young area in Arabic linguistics, namely the investigation of Arabic women's speech habits and the differences between these and men's speech. This ...