I often have access to Routledge but apparently not this one (it's a 2018 digital reprint of a 1992 original publication)

• URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429434679/sociolinguistics-glyn-williams
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• ISBN: 9780429434679

I meant to ask this question a while ago but life got in the way, and I was reminded of it by a recent post here about teen slang.

When I was out with my partner and one of his friends, neither of which are teens and both are native German speakers, I noticed that they use a lot of French-derived words when they speak German and they are words that I don't encounter in my learning material or the radio/TV I follow.

The two I remember for sure are präferieren and dubiös. There were a few more adjectives in -ös but they didn't stick.

I'm curious about the register aspect - where they being formal or pretentious? Should I adopt those words or where they doing something weird by using them?

Hey y’all, I’m a senior in high school and a part of the AP Capstone program. I’m doing my research project on the sociolinguistic effects of elementary English grammar education. For the experimentation segment, I’ll be exposing kids at all different levels of elementary grammar education to voice recordings of people who speak different dialects reading an excerpt from Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar and then asking them questions about the different people speaking. I was mostly able to use recordings of people I know personally, however I live in a very white area so I’m not able to get any AAVE speakers that I know personally, and considering that the research is about the development of prejudice and AAVE speakers face discrimination I feel I can’t leave the dialect out of the experiment.

If you or someone you know are able to give me the recording please DM me, feel free to ask questions in the comments :)

(Please don’t critique my method/topic it had to go through like 10 stages of approval and if I change anything I basically have to get it all approved again lol)

I'm not very well versed in linguistics, so excuse me if I used any terminologies or definitions that are incorrect.

In English, the phrase "I'm sorry" takes multiple meanings. The most common use appears to be that of apology - something similar to "I apologize." The second is the synonym of "Excuse me." And third, as an expression of empathy where it usually initiates the phrases such as "I'm sorry to hear" or "I'm sorry that happened to you."

So the expression "I'm sorry" can range anywhere from apologies where the speaker is responsible for the situation, to a gesture of courtesy for minor inconveniences, to a sign of empathy, where the speaker is not in any manner "responsible" for the situation.

This is not the case in certain other languages. In Korean, for instance, the similar expression "미안합니다(mi.an.ham.ni.ta)" strictly applies to when the speaker is being apologetic. Completely different (or even more obscure) phrases are used to express excuse or empathy. I'm assuming there are many languages that fall on either side of the spectrum and "I'm sorry" is therefore used more frequently (or less frequently) in daily conversations.

What are the consensus for the pattern and frequency of apologies and the semantics of the phrase "I'm sorry" across different languages and cultures?

Hello, I am doing a study on sign languages for a linguistics class. My focus is on the Deaf community, but signers of any background and proficiency are welcome to participate. If you have some time, would you mind filling out my short survey? Thank you for your help, and let me know if you have any accessibility concerns or suggestions on how to improve my questionnaire. Also, sorry for the lack of BSL on the list of languages section, I was trying to limit the list from getting too long.

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Edit: The link is dead now, but thank you to everyone for the responses!

Hi, I’m an undergrad student and I want to get involved in research in sociophonetics, ideally in topics relating to gender and sexuality, after graduating.

Could you guys recommend me some good readings so I could know what’s the current research trend in sociophonetics? Anything that isn’t about gender or sexuality also works for me too! Thanks

I'm doing an activity where I have to watch a movie (called "Anak" it's a Filipino Film) and identify examples of different grammatical and sociolinguistic abilities of the actors in that film.

I was watching the CrashCourse sociolinguistics video.

There’s mention of a study on variation between Jewish women and how closely they identify with their faith, and there’s another study that was mentioned about mixed race men in Washington, d.c. and their variation depending on whether they identified as black or biracial.

Does anyone know the names of either of these studies? there aren’t any sources linked but they sound really interesting and I’d like to read them.

Hi all!

I come from a low-income household from Eastern Europe. We always had food on the table and a stable home but all my clothes were inherited from neighbours and family friends and my Christmas gifts were always budget things, and we never went abroad for holiday (and European countries are quite small!). I want to give my children a better life where they don't need to feel anxious when their classmates are comparing who is doing their shopping where or how much pocket money they get.

I am in the 4th year of my PhD in Sociolinguistics, I just submitted my first draft to my advisor (yay!). I hope I can defend in the autumn. I love research, social sciences and I am a polyglot (fluent in 5 languages, but can get by in 9 if needed).

The thing is, academia here pays ridiculously low (the base wage is a bit less than that of a supermarket cashier or shelf-stocker) unless you bust your ass off for grants and do additional work all the time.

I could imagine working in a non-academic research facility too, but cannot really see what kind of workplaces would need me and pay me considerably well. I want to utilise the skillset I acquired during my 9 years of higher education! (Yes, this post was totally inspired by an earlier social sciences post which I have read through entirely.) Just like the OP of that post, I don't necessarily want to be stuck as a language tutor, constantly having to self-brand and promote, and where I wouldn't use my social research skills.

I don't exactly feel hopeful about the future, unless I get another degree and I learn to be for example a synchronous interpreter or something and work in that field.

People ask me what kind of job I can do with my PhD because they honestly, but innocently, cannot really see the career path of it but here is the problem - neither do I! I don't have IT or learned interpreting skills.

I know that I will always have a job in some helpdesk of a multinational company where they would be delighted I can answer the phone in 3 different languages but no one with a PhD dreams of such a career do they?

Governmental jobs also aren't really known to pay well here. I would absolutely love some insight and maybe personal stories of what you guys think. I just want a job where I can utilise my capabilities, and live off well enough to have a nice place for living and be able to eat in a fancy restaurant once a month and go abroad once a year without having to worry about every penny spent... I'm by no m

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Classical Hebrew used an alveolar /ɾ/ (this is the same sound as the single R as in Spanish pero) for ר.

Language planners in midcentury Israel often prescribed this alveolar /ɾ/, though listening to most current Israelis it's clear that Yiddish-influenced /ʁ/ (or another similar uvular sound) has largely won out. Of course, even today there remain some speakers from traditions who continue to use the /ɾ/ pronunciation instead.

I'm curious about sociolinguistic perceptions of /ɾ/ vs. /ʁ/ in modern daily life in Israel today, so these questions are really geared at Israelis who've grown up in Israel:

• If you use /ɾ/, are you immediately presumed to be foreign?
• Would any person growing up in Israel today use /ɾ/ or would doing so be seen as a relic from their Sephardic/Mizrahi grandparents?
• Are there any examples of /ɾ/ use in modern Israeli media?

Thanks!

I'm in the last year of my linguistics course, and soon I'll have to right a long essay which is worth most of my final grade, kinda like a dissertation. My essay is going to be on the social, geographical and historical factors that contribute to the differences in speech across different areas, or something around this topic. Essentially I want to discuss how someone's background and surroundings can affect their speech. However, we don't get core lectures on sociolinguistics, and the optional ones involve a lot of phonetics, which is more experimental and not exactly what I need.

Since I need to read quite a lot so I don't say ignorant stuff in my essay, can people recommend articles or books relating to my topic? You can mention videos which would definitely help me as someone with a short attention span, but I also need to make sure my bibliography is solid.

I'm a white male, my girlfriend is a Chinese female. We are in our early mid 20s. We have had a long and sometimes rollercoaster-like relationship, but we love each other very much and plan to get married.

We've accepted eachother including flaws and baggage, including complications of intercultural dating. However, there are a few issues, which are not deal breakers or totally unbearable, but I'd love to work on for quality of life and fulfilment.

You see, she's been in the states for over 10 years and she's heavily influenced by both American and Chinese culture. She can fit into either perfectly, and is great at negotiating the differences. However, 95% of her friends, and there are a lot of them, are Chinese. Most of them are students here, speak fluent but rigid English, and have a very marked distaste for almost anything non-Chinese.

I've gotten used to most of it. I know anytime we socialize we will only be eating hotpot or noodles and that most of our socializing will involve eating. I'm 100% fine because I understand it's not easy to be in another part of the world as a minority and it's much easier for them to speak their native language and that they genuinely prefer their own culture. I love her so it's not a huge deal.

The one thing that kind of diminishes my quality of life though is that they all will only speak in Mandarin around me. I can understand and respond some, but not nearly at their speed or nuance. So, I usually end up getting left out of conversations. I probably interact 5% verbally and usually nothing gets translated to me. So, I get bored pretty fast and I usually zone out, talk to other people nearby in public, or play on my phone. I am not trying to be standoffish! It's just really hard to invest in a night out when I have no idea what's going on, even though they will talk about me and not explain what's being discussed.

I know the friends don't hate me, they're nice enough to me, but they don't make any effort to include me. I've talked to my girlfriend about it who doesn't have much of an opinion and doesn't seem to care that I feel excluded. Despite that, she's a really wonderful person so I just assume she doesn't understand it. Still, I've explained to her how it would feel if I speak Spanish exclusively around her when I'm with my friends, even though we all make sure to only speak English around her.

It's not the end of the world. I am fine with just being a kind of extra wheel because our relationship is gr

Hello, I hope this is the right place to post this - really sorry if it isn't!

I'm due to start a PhD in Sociolinguistics fairly soon, and I'm keen to buy a few 'core books' to have on my shelf for easy access. I have WILD imposter syndrome already and feel that I know nothing, and would benefit from having the 'basics' to check back on every now and then! Trouble is, of course, that textbooks are super pricey, so I'm not looking to buy more than 4 or 5 max. Just wondering if anybody has any suggestions for which textbooks or books give a good solid grounding in all or any aspects of Sociolinguistics that I can refer back to from time to time?

Thanks in advance!

Pauwels, A. (2016). Language maintenance and shift. Cambridge University Press

Online ISBN: 9781107338869

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338869

Lim, L., & Ansaldo, U. (2015). Languages in contact. Cambridge University Press.

Online ISBN: 9781139019743

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139019743

Thank you!

Hi everyone, I’m really interested in reading more about sociolinguistics, focusing on English, but most of the books I know are from the previous century. I’d like to read something more up to date. Do you have any recommendations I could check out? It can be more about general linguistics too or anything close to the subject, I’m happy to browse through suggestions to find my thing :) thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I'm doing a research project on Pronouns and English in the United States for a class on Sociolinguistic. If you have the time, please consider taking this survey. It only takes about 3 minutes and will really help me out.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGjW3pccni5pzVdcZRXaTRN7-QaLZvuBVN9hxQcyJ7xvupig/viewform?usp=sf_link

Hey guys, I'm doing a Survey for my sociolinguistics class. I'd greatly appreciate it if you take a minute to fill it out. Thanks!

A little while back, I posted here asking for volunteers to be participants in a study for my sociolinguistics class. Yesterday, I finished the paper and handed it in. Since I'm quite embarrassed by the quality of my paper, being quite rushed, I won't be posting my paper in full. However, I still want to share the results with you all, since you were so helpful to me originally.

I apologize sincerely to everyone who volunteered to help, who responded to all the preliminary questions and then never heard back from me and was not interviewed. I ran out of time to interview everyone, and I interviewed people with priority given to those who were from the United States (to control for dialectal variation). I ended up interviewing 20 out of the 50 total respondents. I also ran out of time to message everyone individually that they would not be interviewed, so if you are one of those people and are mad at me about it, please feel free to message me. You are, in fact, still entitled to duck pictures.

What the study was about

My original hypothesis was this: The ratio of adjunct phrases to complete sentences in a person's speech functions as a locus of marking for sociolinguistic variation, and this variation is used for the construction of an identity around political ideology, specifically in that a higher ratio of adjunct phrases to complete sentences marks the speech of left-leaning ideologies, and lower ratios right-leaning ideologies.

Essentially, within a language, speech varies from person to person, place to place, and very often between different social categories that people might identify with, such as race, gender, generation, etc. The variants of a language that correlate with one group over another can be said to be a marker of the speech of that group. AAVE (African American Vernacular English), for example, is a collection of variations that together characterize the speech of black people in the United States. The markers in one's speech are often used to help portray an identity held with some group, whether consciously or not. It seems reasonable from this description then that identity with a certain political ideology, or even a general lean in one direction over another, might create the conditions to develop characteristic marking in speech.

Adjunct phrases, in syntax, are basically just

hi! i’m still on the fence whether i should pick this! does anyone have any tips/advice if this is manageable? thank you :)))

I don't know whether this type of post is welcome here or not (if not, I apologize), but I am looking for people to participate in my study as part of a final project for my college sociolinguistics class, and this sub seems like the best place to look.

I am studying variations in syntax a possible way of marking political leanings linguistically, and it seems like there exists here a pretty great amount of diversity ideologically. I will need many participants, as diverse as possible, who are able to define themselves accurately on the political compass. Your participation would consist of describing a short series of random pictures over a voice or video call, then providing certain demographic information such as age, race, gender, and, most importantly, political identity/ideology. Your voice will be recorded for me to analyze when writing the paper, but everything otherwise is completely anonymous. The interviews will take place throughout next week, but i am flexible in what time of day I am available. I have nothing to offer in exchange for your participation, other than maybe some pictures of cute baby ducks my sister is raising during quarantine.

If you are interested, message me directly and we can discuss details. If you have any questions please ask in the comments, and I can clarify. Thanks for your help!

So I'm taking Aspects of Sociolinguistics second semester and I was wondering how the class is. I'm taking it to get my writing intensive gen ed out of the way. How is the workload and are the essays hard? Is it a relatively easy gen ed? Also, I have Dan Villarreal, who I know just started teaching in the fall, but I was wondering if any of you guys who had him in the fall could tell me how he is as a prof?

I'm currently on the waitlist to take Ling320 next semester but I've heard that Charles Boberg doesn't lecture online so this class would just be independent study which is pretty intimidating... Can anybody who has this prof this semester/has taken sociolinguistics before share their thoughts? Thanks!

Hello, I am doing a study on sign languages for a linguistics class. If anyone here speaks a sign language or knows someone who speaks a sign language, could you please ask them to fill out this survey? Thank you for your help, and let me know if you have any accessibility concerns or suggestions on how to improve my questionnaire.

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Edit: The link is dead now, but thank you for the responses!