Essays about: "variationist sociolinguistics"

Found 2 essays containing the words variationist sociolinguistics.

1. 1. Innovative quotatives - language change or youth-speak? : A corpus-based study of spoken British English

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Esme Richardson-Owen; [2019]
   Keywords : age-grading; generational change; variationist sociolinguistics;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the possible effect of age on quotative variation in spoken British English with focus on the innovative quotative constructions be like and go and the standard construction say. The study is corpus-based and uses the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 as its material. READ MORE

3. 2. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Niclas Vikström; [2015]
   Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE