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Articles on Sociolinguistics
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Generic names can take on a linguistic life of their own, becoming powerful forms of social commentary.
There’s a disconnect between how many low-wage workers are being described, and what they’re experiencing on the ground.
Irony is a slippery concept. Sometimes it’s used in speech, other times it’s used to describe a situation – oh, and it can also characterize an attitude. Is its versatility its downfall?
African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are — wrongly — denigrated.
Pronouns rarely, if ever, change. Then along came the gender nonbinary ‘they,’ which was just anointed ‘word of the decade.’
One side wants to ‘get Brexit done’ while the other shouts the ‘NHS is not for sale!’. What does it all really mean?
Examining current attitudes to accents in Britain, do the same biases hold true as they did 50 years ago and what does that mean when it comes to the interview process?
How members of America’s two parties view the country – and its place in the world – might explain this phenomenon.
Each spin of the news cycle hits us with another ‘bombshell,’ while everything from free speech to race has been ‘weaponized.’ What’s the effect of being relentlessly exposed to metaphors of war?
A study of Polish children in Glasgow reveals how they successfully navigate complex social rules relating to language to blend in with their peers.
Top contributors
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Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
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Professor of Linguistics and English, Florida International University
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Linguistics, University of Oregon
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Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
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Reader in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow
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Distinguished University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Anthropology & Public Health Emeritus, Alfred University
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Professor of Phonetics, University of Reading
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Professor of Sociolinguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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Research fellow, Griffith University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Researcher at the SARCHI Chair's Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme, University of the Free State
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MD/PhD Candidate, Wayne State University
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Professor of Linguistics, English Language and Literatures and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
