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Direct linkDziugis, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal Investigator (PI) conducted a sociolinguistic experiment focusing on strangers' initial interactions to minimize the influence of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Tannenbaum, Michal; Abugov, Netta – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel's official language, is studied only in religious…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Minorities, Language Usage, Jews
Peer reviewedUnderwood, Gary N. – International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1974
Criticizes mainstream dialectology and linguistic atlases as outdated, and suggests a method for mapping the language of the Southwest. (CK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Interviews, Language Classification
Wood, Gordon R. – 1971
This study of vocabulary change investigates the regional vocabularies found in eight of the Southern states and seeks conclusions about the relative changes in uniformity in current local use. Assumptions, procedures, and techniques for research are presented here. The results reported were obtained from a printed vocabulary questionnaire…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution
Underwood, Gary N. – 1973
What has been labelled mainstream dialectology has been criticized soundly on theoretical grounds, yet mainstream dialectologists have responded with the assertion that their critics have not been intimately familiar with dialect methodology and are therefore not qualified to criticize. Claiming that while theoretical issues are far from being…
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution, Language Classification
Download full textBouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
