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A sociolinguistic study of the "indigenous residents" of Tsing Yi Island: a preliminary surveyTang, Tsui-yee, Eastre., 鄧翠怡. January 1988 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Language Studies / Master / Master of Arts
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A sociolinguistic study of the "indigenous residents" of Tsing Yi Island a preliminary survey /Tang, Tsui-yee, Eastre. January 1988 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Also available in print.
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Bringing Mormon Discourse out of the Twilight: Exploring how Fans Recognize, Reflect, Reinterpret, and Resist Multiple Discourses in and around the Seductive SagaJanuary 2015 (has links)
abstract: ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to explore how LDS (Mormon) fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga make meanings from the text in the blogging community known as the Bloggernacle. It investigates how fans recognize, reflect, reinterpret, and resist meanings surrounding multiple Big "D" Discourses (Gee, 1999/2010; 2011) in and around the text. It examines the ways in which LDS fans (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) of the Twilight saga use language in order to signify membership in a particular Discourse. In addition, it seeks to understand how LDS fans use language to perform various identities and position themselves and others within the digital space.
This dissertation study analyzes the threads of five blogs and three discussion forums using the combined methods of critical ethnography (Carspecken, 1996) and Gee's (1999, 2010;2011) discourse analysis. It concludes, that, while multiple Discourses are present within the conversational threads, mainstream Mormon Discourse remains dominant and normalized within the space, which both informs and limits the interpretations available to Mormon fans. In addition, identity performance is negotiated in the blogs, and members form specific sub-communities within the Bloggernacle so as to create a space for those with distinct ways of believing, valuing, knowing, and identifying. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Curriculum and Instruction 2015
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Língua e diversidade: o olhar dos alunos / Language and diversity: the view of studentsSilva, Elaine Luzia da 25 April 2013 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2013-04-25 / The present research, based on theories of Conversation Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Membership Categorization Devices and Sociolinguistics, investigates talk-in-interaction during the occurrence of focus groups in order to discover, mainly through the analysis of the emergence of categories (Sacks, 1972), what students in the 9th grade of an Elementary School think about the Portuguese language. Data was collected in a public school, located in Minas Gerais, from the realization of three focus groups which occurred at this same school. The recordings amounted to a total of one hundred and thirteen minutes and ninety-two seconds of interaction and, after data collection, they were transcribed and analyzed from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. The data analysis was divided into five parts, according to the main topics discussed during the interactions: i) The language that I speak; ii) The rural speak: a stigmatized variety; iii) The role assigned to the teacher; iv) Language adequacy to speech situation and v) Linguistic insecurity. The data showed that participants have a very reductionist view of language and they consider it a set of predefined rules by traditional grammar. Linguistic diversity is disregarded once the natural changes in the language are understood as errors. Thus, as the participants do not master all of the rules imposed by the traditional grammar, they believe that they are not able to speak their mother tongue proficiently. / Esta pesquisa, fundamentada nas teorias da Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica, Sociolinguística Interacional, Categorização de Membros e Sociolinguística, investiga a fala em interação durante a ocorrência de grupos focais a fim de desvendar, principalmente através da análise da emergência de categorias (Sacks, 1972), o olhar de alunos do 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental em relação à língua portuguesa. Os dados foram gerados em uma escola pública localizada na Zona da Mata mineira, a partir da realização de três grupos focais, os quais ocorreram na própria escola. As gravações somaram um total de cento e treze minutos e noventa e dois segundos de interação e, após a coleta de dados, as gravações foram transcritas e analisadas a partir da perspectiva da Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica. A análise dos dados foi dividida em cinco partes, de acordo com os principais tópicos discutidos nas interações: i) A língua que eu falo; ii) O falar rural: uma variedade estigmatizada; iii) O papel atribuído ao professor; iv) Adequação da linguagem à situação de fala e v) Insegurança linguística. Os dados demonstraram que os participantes têm uma visão muito reducionista de língua, considerando-a como um conjunto de regras préestabelecidas pela gramática normativa. A diversidade linguística é desconsiderada, pois as mudanças naturais da língua são compreendidas como erros. Assim, como os participantes não têm domínio de todas as normas impostas pela gramática tradicional, eles acreditam que não sabem falar sua língua materna.
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Japanese Dialect Ideology from Meiji to the PresentOkumura, Nao 26 July 2016 (has links)
The intent of this study is to examine the trajectory of ideology regarding standard Japanese and dialects from the historical perspective, and also to discuss the cause of the post-war shift of the ideology. Before the war, the government attempted to disseminate hyojun-go aiming at creating a unified Japan in the time when many countries were developing to be nation states after industrial revolution. After the Pacific war, the less strict-sounding term kyotsu-go was more often used, conveying an ideology of democratization. Yet despite the difference in the terms, speaking a common language continues to play a role of unifying the country.
Today there is great interest in regional dialects in Japan. Although kyotsu-go is the common language, most people, especially in urban areas, are familiar with (if not fluent in) kyotsu-go. Due to the development of media and mobilization there are few people who cannot understand kyotsu-go. However, until around the 1970s people were more likely to believe in the superiority of standard Japanese (hyojun-go). Standard language was believed to be superior as a result of language policy that had its origins in Meiji and lasted through WWII. This included education policy that required school children to learn hyojun-go. After the war, in a process of democratization there emerged greater acceptance of language variety: dialect. Thus, there has been a shift in language ideology in Japan, and the people's interests in dialects is one indicator of this. This shift is analyzed here from the perspective of Bourdieu's notion of social and linguistic capital, tying it to policy, historical events and societal change.
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LANGUAGE USE AND SYMBOLIC TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES: EVIDENCE FROM 1.5 AND SECOND GENERATION CUBANS IN MIAMIMaria Yakushkina (8649474) 16 April 2020 (has links)
<p>Today’s highly globalized and
mobile society can be characterized by constant interaction between dominant
and minority groups in one space, where migrant communities manage multiple
cultural and linguistic contexts, while remaining connected to their society of
origin. While the field of transnationalism addresses both the behavioral
(i.e., physical) and symbolic (i.e., emotional) ties to the origin community,
the role that language plays in establishing and maintaining such transnational
practices, and specifically symbolic transnationalism, is not well understood. Addressing
this gap, the current project aims to investigate the interconnection between
heritage language use and symbolic transnationalism through the analysis of 1.5
and 2<sup>nd</sup> generation Cubans in Miami. </p>
<p>The Cuban community in the US,
and more specifically, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, represents a relevant
case for in-depth investigation. While this population is comparable to other
Hispanic groups in the US on many levels (Duany, 2011), the long-standing
political opposition between the U.S. and Cuba have largely limited behavioral
transnational practices (e.g., visits to the country of origin, sending goods
and remittances) of the Cuban population. This broad lack of behavioral
transnationalism in the Miami Cuban community provides a unique opportunity to
examine symbolic transnational practices, effectively isolating two concepts
that are traditionally combined in the literature (Duff, 2015; Reynolds, 2006).</p>
<p>To investigate the
relations between language use and symbolic transnationalism, a mixed methods
study was conducted with 75 young adults of Cuban origin (1.5 and 2<sup>nd</sup>
generation), combining a quantitative questionnaire with face-to-face
sociolinguistic interviews. Quantitatively, data analysis centered on the
analysis of the degree of symbolic transnationalism and language use among 1.5
and 2<sup>nd</sup> generation groups, as well as statistical correlations
between sub-components of language use (history, proficiency, choice, and
value) and symbolic transnationalism (ways of doing and ways of belonging).
Qualitatively, a thematic analysis was conducted to distinguish the most prominent
external factors in the process of symbolic transnationalism maintenance or
development that surfaced in the discourse of the participants. Finally,
discourse analysis was used to investigate how symbolic transnationalism was reflected in linguistic structures,
such as deixis (i.e., terms indicating distance) and stance (i.e., expression
of feelings, judgement, and appreciation). </p>
<p>The analysis of the data provides
strong evidence for overarching links between the level of symbolic
transnationalism and language, such that greater affiliation with the culture
of origin is related to a greater use and importance of the heritage language.
In addition, qualitative results show that the external factors of the family
domain, the Miami environment and ethnic community, and the use of the Spanish
language in Miami, are among the most important for the maintenance and
development of symbolic transnationalism. Finally, discourse analysis revealed
that both 1.5 and 2<sup>nd</sup> generation groups use deictic and stance markers
to express personal and metaphorical proximity, as well as affect and
appreciation of the ethnic community, Cuba as a land, Cuba of the past, and
Cuban culture. In contrast, they express temporal and spatial distance as well
as markers of judgement with respect to Cuba of the present and its current
politics. </p>
<p>This study systematically
isolates the concept of symbolic transnationalism via a quantitative approach
and investigates its connection with language. Their direct correlation,
confirmed by the results, highlights symbolic transnationalism as a significant
variable to consider in sociolinguistic research with migrant communities, and
thus provides a solid theoretical base for bridging the disciplines of
linguistics and transnationalism. Moreover, this work employs a structural
linguistic approach (i.e., deixis and stance) to demonstrate how transnational
ties may be represented through linguistic structures, and thus it provides new
tools for understanding how minority communities express their transnational
connections. </p>
<p>On a practical level, this work
emphasizes the importance of the context and cross-cultural awareness in
language pedagogy. For heritage language learners, it underlines the
bi-directional relationship: language maintenance for sustaining transnational
ties, as well as development of heritage culture appreciation for more
effective heritage language development. Moreover, the findings with respect to
the interconnection between symbolic transnationalism and heritage language
use, emphasize the role of such aspects as sense of belonging, ethnic
community, family history and attitudes towards the country of origin on the
process of heritage language maintenance and self-identification with the
country and culture of origin. Finally, the findings of this work may be
applicable to second language students as well, emphasizing the importance of a
context-based approach to language acquisition, which plays a significant role
in developing productive cross-cultural communication.</p>
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Pronouns, Prescriptivism, and Prejudice: Attitudes toward the Singular 'They', Prescriptive Grammar, and Nonbinary Transgender PeopleEllis Hernandez (8788862) 05 May 2020 (has links)
Reviewing literature on the histories of and the attitude studies about transgender people, the use of ‘they’ as a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, prescriptive grammar ideology, and aversive prejudice theory provides insight into how these topics are interrelated and relevant to current issues surrounding nonbinary transgender people. This review inspired my research study. My participants (n = 722) completed an online survey in which they reported demographic variables and answered scales that measured ‘they’ attitudes in generic and queer contexts, attitudes toward trans people, and prescriptive grammar ideology. I found that the majority of participants approved of using the singular ‘they’. Regression analyses revealed that in a queer context, negative attitudes toward 'they' were best predicted by trans prejudice, while in a generic context, both valuing prescriptive grammar and anti-trans prejudice similarly predicted 'they' attitudes. This indicates that negative attitudes toward the singular 'they' are not merely an issue of taking a principled stance against "improper grammar". Additionally, both sexual orientation and gender (trans vs. cisgender) moderate the relationship between prescriptive grammar ideology and 'they' attitudes. Age, sexual orientation, and education level also influenced my pattern of results such that older participants, queer people, and more highly educated individuals were more likely to have positive attitudes toward the singular ‘they’. These findings have implications for LGBTQ+ individuals’ relationships with cisgender and heterosexual people as well as for theories of prejudice, particularly with regard to the increasingly important area of attitudes toward people with diverse gender identities.
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Sociolinguistic Knowledge of Albanian Heritage Speakers in the U.S.Dickerson, Carly January 2021 (has links)
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Constructing a Gay Persona: A Sociophonetic Case Study of an LGBT Talk Show in TaiwanPan, Junquan, Pan 10 December 2018 (has links)
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Conventions and Change in SemanticsSbardolini, Giorgio 28 August 2019 (has links)
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