grammatical variation and change in spoken ontario
... grammar: the variable use of the subjunctive mood and the expression of future temporal reference. The analyses of both morphosyntactic variables are carried out within the variationist sociolinguistic framework introduced by William Labov. In terms of conditioning factors, particular emphasis is pl ...
... grammar: the variable use of the subjunctive mood and the expression of future temporal reference. The analyses of both morphosyntactic variables are carried out within the variationist sociolinguistic framework introduced by William Labov. In terms of conditioning factors, particular emphasis is pl ...
Brighter than Gold: Figurative Language in User
... This is comparable to 0.57 reported by Hovy et al. (2013) for general metaphor labeling. We show some statistics about the collected data in Table 1. Overall, this is a costly process: out of 2400 automatically extracted comparison candidates, about 60% were deemed by the annotators to be actual com ...
... This is comparable to 0.57 reported by Hovy et al. (2013) for general metaphor labeling. We show some statistics about the collected data in Table 1. Overall, this is a costly process: out of 2400 automatically extracted comparison candidates, about 60% were deemed by the annotators to be actual com ...
Intuitions and Competence in Formal Semantics
... origins of the methodology of formal semantics to see how it compares. While methodological diversity certainly can be regarded as a good thing, it seems much more difficult to say the same of the lack of consensus one may notice on what the proper conceptualisation of the core phenomena of semantic ...
... origins of the methodology of formal semantics to see how it compares. While methodological diversity certainly can be regarded as a good thing, it seems much more difficult to say the same of the lack of consensus one may notice on what the proper conceptualisation of the core phenomena of semantic ...
Discourse Analysis (General Introduction)
... common to associate discourse with language use. Generally, the term refers to any spoken or written communication. In the restricted sense, early scholars of discourse saw it as any verbal exchange or conversation. In contemporary times, discourse means “actual instances of communicative action in ...
... common to associate discourse with language use. Generally, the term refers to any spoken or written communication. In the restricted sense, early scholars of discourse saw it as any verbal exchange or conversation. In contemporary times, discourse means “actual instances of communicative action in ...
Shame, Blame, and Status Incongruity - Anthropology
... inimical to life. Similarly, Yang et al. (2007) assert that stigma is an inherently moral experience, powerful because it represents a threat to what matters most in people’s social worlds. Goffman himself recognized the moral threat inherent to an experience of stigma as a social transaction center ...
... inimical to life. Similarly, Yang et al. (2007) assert that stigma is an inherently moral experience, powerful because it represents a threat to what matters most in people’s social worlds. Goffman himself recognized the moral threat inherent to an experience of stigma as a social transaction center ...
a theoretical framework for the study of audiovisual translation
... that regulates the whole translation project — preliminary norm — as well as the relations that take place in the distribution of the linguistic material when moving from source to target language — operational norms, divided into matricial and textual norms. At a macro-structural level, these norms ...
... that regulates the whole translation project — preliminary norm — as well as the relations that take place in the distribution of the linguistic material when moving from source to target language — operational norms, divided into matricial and textual norms. At a macro-structural level, these norms ...
Exploring Intercultural Interactions in Multicultural Contexts:
... According to Truchot (1994), about 2 billion people make up the Englishspeaking world. In addition to people who speak English as their native language, at least 350 million people have English as a second language, and many more have some knowledge of or contact with English. English is very often ...
... According to Truchot (1994), about 2 billion people make up the Englishspeaking world. In addition to people who speak English as their native language, at least 350 million people have English as a second language, and many more have some knowledge of or contact with English. English is very often ...
WHAT IS MEANT BY DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?
... intention as in John Du Bois' studies (e.g. Du Bois 1993 the Yoruba (Nigeria); see also Alessandro's Duranti's work (e.g. Duranti 1993 ) on the Samoan conception of meaning which holds speakers responsible for the social consequences of their acts of speaking rather than for intentions ascribed to t ...
... intention as in John Du Bois' studies (e.g. Du Bois 1993 the Yoruba (Nigeria); see also Alessandro's Duranti's work (e.g. Duranti 1993 ) on the Samoan conception of meaning which holds speakers responsible for the social consequences of their acts of speaking rather than for intentions ascribed to t ...
“Code Switching” in Sociocultural Linguistics
... two dialects, standard literary Bokmål and local Ranamål, in Hemnesberget to the use of standard and local dialects of Hindi in northern India. In each population, the local dialect appeared more frequently in interaction with neighbors, while the standard dialect was reserved for communication acro ...
... two dialects, standard literary Bokmål and local Ranamål, in Hemnesberget to the use of standard and local dialects of Hindi in northern India. In each population, the local dialect appeared more frequently in interaction with neighbors, while the standard dialect was reserved for communication acro ...
alliteration and sound change in early english - Assets
... with the ambient language. The poetic records we have inherited are undoubtedly a “learned” product, the handiwork of lettered scribes, or they would not have come down to us. However, the monastic setting of manuscript creation did not preclude secular activities, and the community of monks was nei ...
... with the ambient language. The poetic records we have inherited are undoubtedly a “learned” product, the handiwork of lettered scribes, or they would not have come down to us. However, the monastic setting of manuscript creation did not preclude secular activities, and the community of monks was nei ...
Phraseology and linguistic theory
... such as of the or in the, because these do not function as a semantic unit. Also, the definition docs not include completely lexically unspecified patterns such as those that Construction Grammarians refer to as argument structure constructions (cf. below Section 3.2; examples include the ditransiti ...
... such as of the or in the, because these do not function as a semantic unit. Also, the definition docs not include completely lexically unspecified patterns such as those that Construction Grammarians refer to as argument structure constructions (cf. below Section 3.2; examples include the ditransiti ...
Semiotic Anthropology
... less contextual, more conventional kinds of meaning (the symbolic or semantic level, focused more on language content than form). (See Morris 1971 on the semantic/pragmatic distinction.) A further complication is introduced by the need to incorporate analysis of meanings that derive from language-in ...
... less contextual, more conventional kinds of meaning (the symbolic or semantic level, focused more on language content than form). (See Morris 1971 on the semantic/pragmatic distinction.) A further complication is introduced by the need to incorporate analysis of meanings that derive from language-in ...
Building a Corpus in Linguistic Anthropology
... In anthropology and linguistics, the term corpus refers to a collection of data sets used to tackle a particular research question. This can be a collection of passive sentences used for a research on the passive of a certain language, or a collection of photos, interview recordings and their transc ...
... In anthropology and linguistics, the term corpus refers to a collection of data sets used to tackle a particular research question. This can be a collection of passive sentences used for a research on the passive of a certain language, or a collection of photos, interview recordings and their transc ...
chapter two - UM Students` Repository
... Morocco where the traditional and international Classic Arabic is spoken alongside Moroccan Arabic. He does not deal with analogous situations, where two distinct (related or unrelated) languages are used side by side throughout a speech community, each with its clearly defined role, such as Spanish ...
... Morocco where the traditional and international Classic Arabic is spoken alongside Moroccan Arabic. He does not deal with analogous situations, where two distinct (related or unrelated) languages are used side by side throughout a speech community, each with its clearly defined role, such as Spanish ...
Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity
... settlement does not, however, strongly correlate with linguistic diversity (Sutherland 2003, Gavin and Sibanda 2012). Indeed, the number of languages has been in decline since the Neolithic as agricultural groups have spread, replacing hunter–gatherers, and population movements have tended to reduce ...
... settlement does not, however, strongly correlate with linguistic diversity (Sutherland 2003, Gavin and Sibanda 2012). Indeed, the number of languages has been in decline since the Neolithic as agricultural groups have spread, replacing hunter–gatherers, and population movements have tended to reduce ...
What Is the Sapir?Whorf Hypothesis? - Name
... A direct test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis I will involve the following: for the linguistic variable, we select subjects from two languages that differ in color terminology. For example, English makes a basic lexical distinction (Berlin and Kay 1969:5ff) between the color categories ‘green’ and ‘bl ...
... A direct test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis I will involve the following: for the linguistic variable, we select subjects from two languages that differ in color terminology. For example, English makes a basic lexical distinction (Berlin and Kay 1969:5ff) between the color categories ‘green’ and ‘bl ...
New Paths in the Linguistic Anthropology of Oceania
... Moreover, such studies challenge anthropologists to think critically of their own presuppositions about social reality and ethnographic enterprises. For example, Robbins & Rumsey (2008, p. 408) have recently noted that one assertion often heard in Oceanic discourse—that one cannot know other people’ ...
... Moreover, such studies challenge anthropologists to think critically of their own presuppositions about social reality and ethnographic enterprises. For example, Robbins & Rumsey (2008, p. 408) have recently noted that one assertion often heard in Oceanic discourse—that one cannot know other people’ ...
Some Principles on the use of Macro
... continental norms, there are many cases in which the ‘macro-area’ groupings are simply another way to represent families. This would seem to be counterproductive to achieving statistical independence between macro-areas, yet at the same time they are explicit rules in the schema underlying WALS. We ...
... continental norms, there are many cases in which the ‘macro-area’ groupings are simply another way to represent families. This would seem to be counterproductive to achieving statistical independence between macro-areas, yet at the same time they are explicit rules in the schema underlying WALS. We ...
Norms and Sociolinguistic Description1
... social status, one of the many possible evaluative dimensions. Apart from recent years the other evaluative dimensions have received limited amount of attention. Although the word prestige is tightly connected to social status, in the literature it is often used as a term that refers to any kind of ...
... social status, one of the many possible evaluative dimensions. Apart from recent years the other evaluative dimensions have received limited amount of attention. Although the word prestige is tightly connected to social status, in the literature it is often used as a term that refers to any kind of ...
All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics
... linguistic-anthropological theories of genre by Bauman and others have been taken up in European studies of verbal art (Knoblauch and Kotthoff 2001), work on language ideologies by Silverstein, Woolard, Schieffelin, and other U.S.based linguistic anthropologists has inspired related research elsewhe ...
... linguistic-anthropological theories of genre by Bauman and others have been taken up in European studies of verbal art (Knoblauch and Kotthoff 2001), work on language ideologies by Silverstein, Woolard, Schieffelin, and other U.S.based linguistic anthropologists has inspired related research elsewhe ...
Society for Ethnomusicology
... To explain means to account for observable phenomena in terms of their underlyingregularities,or principles(Hempel 1966). We might first note that one never explains something by previously assumingit. The difference between explaining and assuminglies in evidence. Explanations require empirical sup ...
... To explain means to account for observable phenomena in terms of their underlyingregularities,or principles(Hempel 1966). We might first note that one never explains something by previously assumingit. The difference between explaining and assuminglies in evidence. Explanations require empirical sup ...
"Expert Rhetorics" in Advocacy for Endangered Languages: Who Is
... languages are tiny and often do not carry the indirect cost returns so desired by university administrators. Communities where endangered languages are spoken often are opposed to the publication of research; I personally know of several cases in which the careers of young linguists have been impede ...
... languages are tiny and often do not carry the indirect cost returns so desired by university administrators. Communities where endangered languages are spoken often are opposed to the publication of research; I personally know of several cases in which the careers of young linguists have been impede ...
Thick description in applied contexts
... engender this suffering. We can therefore think of structural violence as a system in which qualitative suffering serves as the content, and socio-political and socio-economic structures serve as the form of the concept. The larger scale structure of political and economic networks engenders the suf ...
... engender this suffering. We can therefore think of structural violence as a system in which qualitative suffering serves as the content, and socio-political and socio-economic structures serve as the form of the concept. The larger scale structure of political and economic networks engenders the suf ...
Linguistic Anthropology in 2013: Super-New-Big AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST Angela Reyes Linguistic Anthropology
... more complex forms of communication (Arnaut et al. 2012; Blommaert et al. 2012). In this sense, its fundamental premise claims that superdiversity is “there,” happening, and ready to be described by “us,” the researcher. Thus, superdiversity is a theory built on what is understood as an empirical ch ...
... more complex forms of communication (Arnaut et al. 2012; Blommaert et al. 2012). In this sense, its fundamental premise claims that superdiversity is “there,” happening, and ready to be described by “us,” the researcher. Thus, superdiversity is a theory built on what is understood as an empirical ch ...
How language changed the genes: toward an explicit account of the
... Our point of departure is a theoretical reappraisal of Chomsky’s long-standing hypothesis of the autonomy of syntactic structures from meaning considerations. As we have already indicated, recent empirical research on the interface between syntactic and semantic representations consistently demonstr ...
... Our point of departure is a theoretical reappraisal of Chomsky’s long-standing hypothesis of the autonomy of syntactic structures from meaning considerations. As we have already indicated, recent empirical research on the interface between syntactic and semantic representations consistently demonstr ...
Linguistic insecurity
Linguistic insecurity refers to feelings of anxiety, self-consciousness, or lack of confidence in the mind of a speaker surrounding the use of their own language. Often, this anxiety comes from speakers' belief that their use of language does not conform to the perceived standard and/or the style of language expected by the speakers' interlocutor(s). Linguistic insecurity is situationally induced and is often a matter of the feeling of inadequacy regarding personal performance in certain contexts, rather than a fixed attribute of an individual. This insecurity can lead to stylistic, and phonetic shifts away from an affected speaker's default speech variety; these shifts may be performed consciously on the part of the speaker, or may be reflective of an unconscious effort to conform to a more prestigious or context-appropriate style of speech. Linguistic insecurity is linked to the perception of speech styles in any community, and so may vary based on socioeconomic class and gender. It is also especially pertinent in multilingual societies.