Language, you will not be surprised to know, keeps on changing. This change does not occur only within a country or across the geographical regions but takes place across the social and ethnic ...

Terttu Nevalainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, director of the VARIENG National Centre of Excellence 2001–2005 and 2006-2011, and Academy Professor ...

The STRATAS project studies language change by developing tools that enable us to ask questions that have until now been too labour-intensive to answer. These tools are being developed by computer ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics differs from Interactional Sociolinguistics as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured. This structured variation ...

I am Professor of Sociolinguistics. I joined the department in February 2004, following a Lectureship at the University of Manchester. My PhD research was also completed at Manchester. During the ...

SOCIOLINGUISTICS, the study of the dynamics of language and society, is among the most thriving sub-disciplines of linguistics in the country. In fact, the late Education, Culture and Sports secretary ...

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Language, you will not be surprised to know, keeps on changing. This change does not occur only within a country or across the geographical regions but takes place across the social and ethnic ...