Doing Sociolinguistics. A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly with some of t... Lees meer.

Modern standard written Chinese has two common object markers ba and jiang. Both markers appear to have been widely used in the spoken language of the Tang dynasty. Today jiang has disappeared from the dialects and subdialects of northern China and it is mainly used in... Lees meer.

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This study is an investigation of the sociolinguistic status of Kiamu and Kimvita dialects of Kiswahili language in Kenya. The assumption is that the dialects are threatened with death due to various factors such as the onslaught of Kiswahili Sheng and English. The po... Lees meer.

Power and Politeness in the Workplace has become established as a seminal text for courses in language and professional communication. Co-authored by bestselling author Janet Holmes this text provides insights into the way we all talk at work including a wealth of mat... Lees meer.

In outlining the socio-linguistic implications of turn-taking in conversation analysis this thesis covers the basic terminology and includes some of the more recent research in the field of applied conversational linguistics. The findings lead to the social implication... Lees meer.

Gender portrayals have known significant changes in print advertising over the last decades but gender stereotypes remain widely controversial in the world of advertising nowadays. The verbal and visual language of advertising may reflect a nation s culture customs an... Lees meer.

Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers Discourse and Practice. New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen s methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse van Leeuwen argues is a resource... Lees meer.

This study focuses on the use of the Tamil language and stylistic devices adopted by Re. Karthigesu one of the best known Tamil creative writers in Malaysia. The four novels selected for the study are written on social themes which center around the Tamil communities l... Lees meer.

Conversation analysis is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently ho... Lees meer.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade. 1 3 University of Leipzig Institut f r Anglistik course. Anglistische Linguistik language. English abstract. The stereotype bitch is probably one of... Lees meer.

Orelus valuable study draws on the scholarly work of sociocultural and postcolonial theorists as well as testimonies collected from study participants to explore accentism the systemic form of discrimination against speakers whose accents deviate from a socially con... Lees meer.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade. 1 3 University of Leipzig Institut f r Anglistik course. Anglistische Linguistik language. English abstract. The stereotype bitch is probably one of... Lees meer.

The main purpose of the book is to describe the two linguistic-cultural phenomena arising from mass emigration of Mexicans to Los Angeles. Spanish-English bilingualism and Spanglish. The main thesis of the research is the correlation between Spanish-English bilingualis... Lees meer.

The Amazon is home to a rainbow of social categories. numerous groups with different forms of settlement integration and occupation. The Amazon is shown to have experienced significant change in recent years resulting from development efforts undertaken in the region... Lees meer.