"Sociolinguistics" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 13 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Better Essays

    English Controlled Assessment The English language‚ although used by almost all across the United Kingdom‚ has been mutated and altered in so many ways that sometimes we cannot even understand it ourselves. One of the main factors that affects our understanding of the language is one’s regional accent. Although most words and phrases will be comprehensible some phonetics may have changed so much that all we can do is hope that the context of what has been said makes sense in order for us to ‘fill

    Premium Dialect Phonology English language

    • 1424 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Singapore English

    • 1844 Words
    • 7 Pages

    predominantly Chinese- or Malay-based); most Singaporeans simply take this ‘phenomenon’ for granted without knowing that there are sociolinguistic reasons which give rise to such situations. A detailed discussion of the possible causes of this would be most beneficial. This paper therefore seeks to discuss and propose possible explanations for this sociolinguistic phenomenon. Specifically‚ this paper asserts and hypothesises that the comparatively small Indian population and the lack of Tamil

    Premium Singapore

    • 1844 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    31-56. Bakhtin‚ M. (1981). The dialogic imagination. Austin‚ University of Texas Press. Bell‚ A. (1984). Language style as audience design. Language in Society 13: 145-204. Bell‚ A. (2001). Back in style: Reworking audience design. Style and sociolinguistic variation. P. Eckert and J. R. Rickford. Cambridge‚ Cambridge University Press: 139-69. Benor‚ S. (2001). Sounding learned: The gendered use of /t/ in Orthodox Jewish English. Penn working papers in linguistics: Selected papers from NWAV 2000

    Premium Sociology Social class Middle class

    • 14815 Words
    • 60 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    kari`ña

    • 5344 Words
    • 22 Pages

    para la evaluación de marcos deícticos* Preliminary Analysis of an Assessment of Deictic Frames Protocol María Isabel Rendón** Universidad Santo Tomás‚ Colombia Recibido: 20 de octubre de 2012 Revisado: 22 de noviembre de 2012 Aceptado: 8 de diciembre de 2012 Resumen El propósito de esta investigación es explorar diferencias en la ejecución de tareas deícticas presentadas en el protocolo de McHugh‚ Barnes-Holmes y Barnes-Holmes (2004a)‚ en relación con variaciones procedimentales que

    Premium Social psychology Stereotype Sociology

    • 5344 Words
    • 22 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Object of Lexicology

    • 424 Words
    • 2 Pages

    conditioned by the various ties between the objects of their study.Lex.is linked with the history.Lex.is also connected with stylistics‚ stylistics studies many problems treated in lex. As problems of meaning‚ synonym.Lex.is bound up with sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics investigates the xtra-linguistic or social causes of the changes in the vocabulary of a language.(3)There’re 2 principal approaches to language study. Synchronic (descriptive) and Diachronic(historical).The Swiss philologist Ferdinand

    Free Linguistics

    • 424 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Dating in Hong Kong (i) Abstract Studying the language characteristics in different context is an essential field of sociolinguistics. Dating is a special context in which cross-gendered interactions involve. Affective language would be frequently used in this context. Also‚ the relationship between language and gender has become an important topic in sociolinguistics in the recent years. However‚ there is limited research investigating the affective language used in dating. In this research

    Premium Gender Linguistics Gender role

    • 1512 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    so‚ in fact‚ that taking a linguistic approach – and most usefully a sociolinguistic one – to studying the dialogue of Blanche and Stanley could provide us with revealing insights into the subtlety and depth of Williams’ writing. Sociolinguistics deals with the ways in which society helps to shape language. Work in this area has spawned a number of fascinating concepts and terms. There is not space here to look at sociolinguistics in depth‚ but the following could well help us in studying the relationship

    Premium Linguistics Dialect

    • 917 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Best Essays

    English Problems

    • 5511 Words
    • 23 Pages

    second language on different specific cognitive processes in various learning tasks‚ and (b) particular cognitive resources of the bilingual learner that can facilitate learning. Complementing these psycholinguistic studies‚ investigations that use sociolinguistic approaches reveal a range of important personal and social processes and factors that suggest a sense of agency on the part of the bilingual learner as the learner engages learning tasks amidst varying requirements of the social environments of

    Premium English language Second language Psychology

    • 5511 Words
    • 23 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Good Essays

    the greatest inventions

    • 3274 Words
    • 22 Pages

    SLS  Course  Descriptions   Fall  2014   600-­‐  through  700-­‐level   SLS 600 (1). Introduction to Second Language Studies (ONLINE). Hudson This course introduces students to second language studies‚ as represented in the MA in SLS program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa‚ and to the field(s) of applied linguistics more generally. This course also serves as an introduction to the kinds of work that will be expected of students as they progress through the

    Premium Second language acquisition Language acquisition Linguistics

    • 3274 Words
    • 22 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    into a broader picture of sociolinguistic change‚ which would consider written language in its own right‚ deconstruct the very notion of ‘language’ into various domains of language practice‚ and distinguish potential trajectories of change within online written usage‚ from digital to non-digital written language‚ or to spoken usage. Questions and scenarios of this kind circulate in the transnational research

    Premium Writing Linguistics

    • 9045 Words
    • 27 Pages
    Powerful Essays
Page 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 50