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Sociolinguistics

“How does language fit into society ?”
"What does language tell you about the social status of a person ?"

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• Eating Naartjies in the Bioscope: A Little Guide to South African English -- Guardian (24 May 2013)
  
  
• America's Fabulously Mongrel Language Is a Model of Immigration reform -- Guardian (21 April 2013)
  
  
• Txtspk Is a Stimulating Force in Language Evolution -- New Scientist (11 April 2013)
  
  
• New Research Discovers the Emergence of Twitter 'Tribes' -- EurekAlert (14 March 2013)
  
  
• Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network Twitter --

  John Bryden, Sebastian Funk, and Vincent AA Jansen, EPJ Data Science (25 February 2013)

• There Really are 50 Eskimo Words for ‘Snow’ -- Washington Post (14 January 2013)
  
  
• Pronunciation of 'S' Sounds Impacts Perception of Gender, Researcher Finds -- ScienceDaily (04 January 2013)
  
  
• Physicists Explore the Rise and Fall of Words -- LiveScience (27 December 2012)
  
  
• Most Culturally Diverse City Per Mile Named -- Discovery News (13 December 2012)
  [Manchester, England, is home to people who speak at least 153 different languages, indicating that it is  the most culturally diverse city for its size in the world.]
  
  
• A Deliberate Language Barrier -- NewScientist (12 December2012)
  
  
• Linguist Makes Sensational Claim: English Is a Scandinavian Language -- ScienceDaily (27 November 2012)
  
  
• Catalan: A Language That Has Survived Against the Odds -- Guardian (22 November 2012)
  
  
• Where Have All the Adverbs Gone? And How Did They Go? -- Guardian (19 August 2012)
  
  
• Hashtags seep into everyday speech -- Katie Humphrey, StarTribune (13 October 2012)
  
  
• Signs of the Times: Deaf Community Minds Its Language -- Guardian (07 October 2012)
  
• Americans Keen on Britishisms Sneaking Into Their Language -- MSNBC (28 September 2012)
  
  
• Increases in Individualistic Words and Phrases in American Books, 1960–2008 -- PLoS ONE (10 July 2012)
  
  
• Books Increasingly Show It’s All About Me -- Pacific Standard (11 July 2012)
  
  
• How offensive is the word 'lunatic'? -- BBCNews (08 May 2012)
  
  
• Science Weekly podcast: Daniel Everett on language [Science Weekly podcast ] -- Daniel Everett, The Guardian (08 April 2012)
  
  
• Women and Men Are Still Unequal – Even When They Are Dead -- Guardian (16 April 2012)
  
  
• Study Reveals Words' Darwinian Struggle for Survival -- Guardian (21 March 2012)
  
  
• Gendered Grammar Linked to Global Sexism -- LiveScience (21 February 2012)
  • Countries with the Most and Least Gender Equality -- LiveScience (21 February 2012)
    
    
• Menominee Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying "I Love You" in her Native Language -- Native News Network (3 February 2012)
  
  
  • Wisconsin diocese apologizes to 7^th-grader punished for speaking in native language -- TwinCities.com Pioneer Press (02 February 2012)
    
    
• On the Origin of Vocab -- Guardian (09 February 2012)
  
  
• Female Fertility Affects Men's Linguistic Choices -- PLoS ONE (08 February 2012)
  
  
• Good Gossip: We May Spread Rumors to Protect Others -- LiveScience (07 February 2012)
  
  
• High Language Competence Among Young People -- EurekAlert (06 february 2012)
  
  
• Whoopensocker Dictionary of American Dialect Completed After 50 Years -- Guardian (31 January 2012)
  
  
• English Is an Optimistic Language, Study Suggests -- LiveScience (23 January 2012)
  
  
• Gossip Can Have Social and Psychological Benefits -- EurekAlert (17 January 2012)
  
  
• We May Be Less Happy, But Our Language Isn't -- EurekAlert (12 January 2012)
  
  
• Learn Language Faster with Gestures -- NewScientist (03 January 2012)
  
  
• Language May Be Dominant Social Marker for Young Children -- EurekAlert (01 December 2011)
  
  
• The Cool Twists of Language -- Guardian (21 November 2011)
  
  
• How Language Transformed Humanity -- Guardian (04 August 2011)
  
  
• Chinese-English Bilinguals Are 'Automatic' Translators -- EurekAlert (02 August 2011)
  
  
• Age No Excuse for Failing to Learn a New Language -- New Scientist (22 July 2011)
  
  
• Linguists Examine Obstacles to Native-like Proficiency in Foreign Language Acquisition -- EurekAlert (06 July 2011)
  
  
• Language Patterns Are Roller-Coaster Ride During Childhood Development -- EurekAlert (24 February 2011)
  
  
• Language Style Predicts Romantic Chemistry -- Discovery News (04 February 2011)
  
  
• Social Networks Create Their Own Regional Dialects -- New Scientist (10 January 2011)

• approach that says that culture and society and a person’s social position influence/determine the content and form of language
  
  
  • dialectology
    
    
• a field of study devoted to revealing such social effects on language

Language reflects:

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• time
  
  
• age
  
  
• sex
  
  
• circumstance

• Accent Speaks Louder Than Race for Finding Friends -- Discovery News (16 March 2010)
  
  
• An annual tradition from Lake Superior State University identifies the most overused words of 2011 -- Scout Report, 06 January 2012, Volume 18, Number 1
  
  
• Guy Deutscher: Language alters how we think -- Guardian (13 June 2010)
  
  
• "Hidden" Language Found in Remote Indian Tribe -- National Geographic News (05 October 2010)
  
  
• Humans 'Subconsciously Mimic Other Accents', Psychologists Claim -- Telegraph (07 August 2010)
  
  
• In a Far Corner of Greenland, Hope Is Fading with the Language and Sea Ice -- Guardian (28 November 2010)
  
  
• Language Guide -- LanguageGuide.org
  
  
• The Language That Lovers Share Is a 'Window' Into the State of Their Relationship -- Telegraph (04 October 2010)
  
  
• North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns -- The Aschmann clan, Rick Aschmann
  
  
• Oh $#*!, I'm 3! Kids Learning to Swear Earlier -- Live Science (23 September 2010)
  
  
• Online Speech Pathology Programs
  
  
• Speech Accent Archive -- George Mason University
  
  
• The Truth Behind Thick Accents: Foreigners Judged Less Truthful -- ABC News (28 July 2010)
  
  
• When the Accent Is on Creating a Good Impression -- Guardian (16 December 2010)