Falchetta, Jacopo
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This paper aims at clarifying the role that TV fiction plays in the indexical redistribution of Moroccan Arabic (MA) linguistic features, and how this is connected to media’s contribution to the non-institutional standardisation of MA. First of all, it shows how six variables are employed in the composition of dialogues for two original Moroccan se...
Lehtonen, Heini Møller, Janus Spindler
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
In this paper, we analyze two instances of interactional breakdown in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our focus is situations where teachers request the use of minority languages from pupils, and pupils react reluctantly and display embarrassment. These situations represent sociolinguistic spaces of upse...
Busch, Brigitta Spitzmüller, Jürgen
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This paper engages with the notion of the shibboleth, an indexically loaded, usually referentially indifferent set of (ideologically constructed) minimal pairs that is used in order to mark and perform social differentiation. We argue that the shibboleth is to be considered an interpretive (metapragmatic) phenomenon that operates on different socio...
Reber, Elisabeth
Published in
Sociolinguistica
This article takes a cognitive, interactional perspective on pluricentricity and examines the use of fragmental constructions in a mid-sized dataset, drawing on recordings of British English and American English post-match interviews (PMIs), i.e. media interviews conducted with football players after matches in the British and North American top le...
Peng, Chun-Yi
Published in
Chinese Semiotic Studies
Although there is a long-standing tradition discounting the effect of media exposure on language variation, this study shows how televised media formulate and reinforce the sociosemiotic links between linguistic features and their regional associations. The Mandarin aspect marker you is an interesting case in this regard, as it is semiotically link...
Niehaus, Konstantin
Published in
Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik
This article examines language and local identity in an urban space analysing the enregisterment of a local variety at one of the most relevant dialect borders in Germany: the Bavarian city of Augsburg which is in close proximity to both Upper Bavaria and Bavaria’s capital Munich. The local dialect of Augsburg mixes Swabian-Alemannic and Bavarian f...
Ruano-García, Javier
Published in
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
This paper places literary recreations of Lancashire English into the context of enregisterment and the sociolinguistics of spelling. Using the Salamanca Corpus, I examine Lancashire dialect writings published between 1700 and 1900 representative of both dialect literature and literary dialect to determine the repertoire of forms that were circulat...
Haas, Walter Genton, François Elmiger, Daniel Matthey, Marinette
Cette contribution est la version écrite d’une conférence plénière tenue en allemand lors d’un colloque sur les contacts de langues en 2003. Haas revient tout d’abord sur la définition de la diglossie et des notions apparentées, en discutant un certain nombre de critères. Il relève ensuite la confusion qui s’installe entre variété de langue et regi...
Marzo, Stefania
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This article explores the linguistic and meta-linguistic heritage of the Italian mine workers families that arrived in Belgian Limburg after the Second World War. On the basis of historical research, discourse analysis of texts and sociolinguistic interviews, I describe how the complex linguistic integration of first-generation migrants, that was s...
Hilton, Katherine Jeong, Sunwoo
Published in
Linguistics Vanguard
Previous research demonstrates that listeners make social inferences about people based on how they speak, and that these inferences vary depending on the linguistic and social context. An open question is exactly how contextual enrichment (i.e. information about the speaker and speaking situation) comes to influence sociolinguistic perception. Thi...
