My most recent work in this area appears in Coupland’s Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates, again coauthored with Mary Bucholtz. Our 2016 article Embodied Sociolinguistics considers how a focus on ...

As sociolinguistics is such a vast, broad topic, it attracts a myriad of interest from researchers of all disciplines. As we mentioned in the What does Sociolinguistics study? section, different ...

The focus for a linguistic study must have a purpose and that purpose must be to answer a particular linguistic or social question. The way in which it is studied is through sociolinguistic theory and ...

The study suggests that fine-tuning LLMs on datasets designed to represent the target language in all its diversity – as decades of research in sociolinguistics has described in detail – can ...

The study suggests that fine-tuning LLMs on datasets designed to represent the target language in all its diversity—as decades of research in sociolinguistics has described in detail—can ...

The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) was founded at the University of Bristol in 2005. To travel directly to our main webpage in Salzburg click here. 2015 9th HiSoN Summer School in Metochi ...