Tag: Sociolinguistics
Kiswahili dominates religious signboards in Dar es Salaam
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in LinguisticsStudy of 97 religious signboards in Dar es Salaam reveals how language choice and visual design structure information access and religious identity in Tanzania’s urban worshipscapes.
African multilingualism conflicts with imported language theories
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in LinguisticsDecolonising African linguistics: critiquing Global North frameworks, exposing research extraction, and reclaiming multilingual realities distorted by colonial legacies
Manx new speakers disagree on “good” language use
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in LinguisticsAnalysis of language ideologies and attitudes toward morphosyntax among new speakers of Revitalized Manx, examining beliefs about linguistic correctness in minoritized language revitalization.
Neoliberal multilingualism shapes mixed-language online practices
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in LinguisticsExamine how Chinese-English code-mixing and translingual practices on social media reflect neoliberal multilingualism, gender, race, and regional positioning while revealing tensions between.
Xitsonga address forms vary by social context
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in LinguisticsSociolinguistic analysis of terms of address in Xitsonga literature reveals diverse address forms including kinship terms, nicknames, and teknonyms shaped by social context.
