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Tonouchi (2001) Throughout this book, we have been talking about languages such as English, Spanish or Swahili as if there was a single variety of each in everyday use. That is, we have largely ignored the fact that every language has a lot of variation, especially in the way it is spoken. If we just look at English, we find widespread ...
1.1 Synchronic variation. All languages that we can observe today show variation; what is more, they vary in identical ways, namely geographically and socially. These two parameters, along which variation occurs, are in principle inde-pendent of each other, although we shall see that there are ways in which they (and others to be discussed ...
4 de jan. de 2018 · In this chapter, we describe sociolinguistic variation and change in BSL varieties in England. This will show how factors that drive sociolinguistic variation and change in both spoken and signed language communities are broadly similar. Social factors include, for example, a signer’s age group, region of origin, gender , ethnicity and socio ...
20 de mar. de 2020 · Xu et al. (2022), on the other hand, suggest that language variations can lead to language changes over time, and language varieties can be the result of localized language changes, based on their ...
4 de jan. de 2018 · Abstract and Figures. British Sign Language (BSL) is the language used by the deaf community in the UK. In this chapter, we describe sociolinguistic variation and change in BSL varieties in ...
The term ethnolect is often preferred by those studying ethnic groups, geolect by those concerned with geographical differences and regiolect by those concerned with the study of macro-languages such as Chinese, Malay and Arabic which contain mutually incomprehensible varieties of the same major language. accent.
However, each of these definitions does not fail to acknowledge that sociolinguistics has to do with language use and a society"s response to it. Let us examine some of them. 1. The study of the link between language and society, of language variation and of attitudes about language (Spolsky 2010)
