International tourism and (linguistic) accommodation: Convergence towards and through English in tourist information interactions by Adam Wilson

“…International tourism continues to grow and diversify exponentially, creating situations of intense language contact and giving rise to unexpected sociolinguistic dynamics and phenomena. In order to ensure successful communication and counteract the challenges linked to these dynamics, speakers in tourist contexts must be able to adapt in order to accommodate to their interlocutors. …”
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Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“… African linguistic complexity is often defined in terms of its multilingualism and a complicated colonial sociolinguistic heritage. Tis colonial heritage is seen in the prevalence of European languages, especially English and French, in the lingual Franca of sub-Saharan states. …”
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L’accommodation dans le débat politique britannique Question Time. Quelle modélisation pour quelles stratégies ? by Laurent Rouveyrol

“…Accommodation is generally considered as a multi-faceted notion, originating from sociolinguistics and psychology. The aim of the present study is twofold: first we would like to propose a conceptual framework based on Vion’s research on interaction processes (1992, 1995, 1998). …”
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Toward Culturally and Linguistically Responsive E-Learning in Post-COVID-19 Higher Education: Perspectives from the United Arab Emirates by Sarah Hopkyns

“…In the Gulf, cultural, religious, and sociolinguistic dynamics can present additional challenges for teaching and learning online. …”
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THE LINGUISTIC ADAPTION IN AN IMMIGRANT LANGUAGE SETTING IN MAKASSAR, INDONESIA by Andi Samsu Rijal, Andi Mega Januarti Putri, Sulviana Sulviana

“…The data were collected through observation on the recorded and transcribed conversation and interviews some of the participants to confirm how and why they used certain language during the conversation by using the sociolinguistics approach. These interactions which use some language variation or dialects can be called a linguistics adaptation as the effect of language contact situation. …”
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The Mongolian Script in the Baikal region at the Present Stage: a Course for Revitalization? by Innokenty G. Aktamov, Nadezhda B. Badmatsyrenova

“…The main purpose of this article is to characterize the key trends in society from the point of view of sociolinguistic processes. Materials and methods. The research is based on a thorough examination of official data from the Government of the Republic of Buryatia, government departments of the Irkutsk region and Transbaikal region, as well as publications in the media and field materials gathered through an expert survey of heads of educational centers and language activists. …”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Ulaanbaatar: what Signs and People tell about by Erzhen V. Khilkhanova

“…The paper analyzes the linguistic landscape of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar in an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological context: at the junction of social semiotics, ethnography, and linguistic landscape studies as a subdiscipline of sociolinguistics. The aim of the study is to analyze the linguistic landscape signs and social meanings attributed to them by the inhabitants of Ulaanbaatar, as well as linguistic ideologies underlying social indexicality. …”
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Multilingual Singing in Nigeria: Examining Roles, Meaning, and Function in Wazobia Gospel Music by Adekunle Oyeniyi

“…This article presents an introductory historical, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic study of “Wazobia gospel music”, a twenty-first-century Nigerian congregational musical genre. …”
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Voice quality types and uses in North American English by Richard Wright, Courtney Mansfield, Laura Panfili

“…Our findings bear on the debate about the sociolinguistic uses of voice quality.…”
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A TEI-based Approach to Standardising Spoken Language Transcription by Thomas Schmidt

“…This paper formulates a proposal for standardising spoken language transcription, as practised in conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, dialectology and related fields, with the help of the TEI guidelines. …”
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Neutralizing gender in role nouns: investigating the effect of ə in written and oral Italian by Martina Abbondanza, Valeria Galimberti, Valeria Bonomi, Carlo Reverberi, Federica Durante, Francesca Foppolo

“…We discuss our findings also in light of trade-offs of this proposal from linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.…”
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“Diversity’s good unless you have a Southern accent, then you’re a hick”: Self-evaluation, linguistic insecurity and symbolic domination in Middle Tennessee by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…In this context, we draw upon on the notion of symbolic domination, that is a lack of awareness regarding the inherently arbitrary nature of a linguistic standard which leads speakers of less prestigious varieties to judge their own linguistic productions through the prism of dominant criteria (Bourdieu, 2001; Bourdieu & Boltanski, 1975).Our study is based on the results of sociolinguistic fieldwork data from Murfreesboro (Middle Tennessee), which was collected in accordance with the theoretical and methodological framework of the PAC research programme and within the scope of the LVTI-Language, Urban Life, Work, Identity sociophonological project (Durand & Przewozny, 2012; Przewozny et al. 2020). …”
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DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Comparative Efficacy in Reasoning for Adults’ Second Language Acquisition Analysis by Mohammad Mahyoob Albuhairy, Jeehaan Algaraady

“…Contributions include a proposal for integrating AI tools into L2 pedagogy, emphasizing contrastive drill and sociolinguistic awareness, and recommendations for training AI concerning L1-targeted error profiles. …”
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The evolution of creaky voice use in read speech by native-French and native-English speakers in tandem: a pilot study by Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Céline Horgues, Sylwia Scheuer, Takeki Kamiyama

“…It also performs paralinguistic, stylistic, sociolinguistic and extra-linguistic functions. It has been reported as prevalent in (especially American) English but it is rarely described in French.During tandem exchanges between native-French speakers and native-English speakers, does voice quality found in each of the 2 languages spoken evolve in the course of the interactions? …”
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Applied Linguistics. Reflections on an evolving discipline with a focus on publications in the journal TEANGA, The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, from 20... by Jennifer Bruen

“…These include multilingualism and plurilingualism, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language policy and planning, and sociolinguistics. Reflecting the journal’s particular context, Irish-English bilingualism and Irish immersion education play an important role. …”
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CLINICAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF A DOCTOR by V. M. Zhdan, L.M. Shylkina, O.M. Bieliaieva

“…The research is interdisciplinary and covers a range of issues related to medical psychology and medical pedagogy, medical ethics and deontology, sociology and sociolinguistics. The authors emphasize that in a patient-centered approach, the skills of clinical communication belong to basic clinical abilities, which minimize factors that can negatively affect the doctor’s success, promoting patient satisfaction with medical care and improving their psycho-emotional state, patient compliance, increasing the effectiveness of diagnosis, treatment, disease prevention, and palliative care. …”
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Do You Speak Dialect? Yes! by Vytautas Kardelis, Gabriela Forgeron

“…The snowball method, a favoured approach among sociolinguists and dialectologists, may appear advantageous in terms of material collection. …”
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Le secteur de la santé en Algérie entre arabisation, défrancisation et anglicisation by Fatima Zohra Chebab, Karim Ouaras

“…In this space of care and advice, communication becomes increasingly difficult and prone to misunderstandings, uncertainties, and ambiguities.In line with the recent research dedicated to language practices in healthcare spaces, this article aims to examine the complexity of the linguistic cartography characterizing the hospital structure in the Algerian context. Based on sociolinguistic and discourse analysis approaches, this study focuses on the latest political-linguistic measures imposed on this sector and examines the instability of its linguistic praxis.Recent political upheavals in Algeria have placed the linguistic issue at the center of debates, escaping the multiple challenges faced both nationally and internationally. …”
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Post-harvest conservation practices, related insect pests of stored pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L) R. Br.), and their management in northern Benin by Tayé Obédatou Alagbe, Yeyinou Laura Estelle Loko, Innocent Djègbè, Julien Gandjala, Dieudonné Gavoedo, Manuele Tamò

“…Vernacular taxonomy and local nomenclature of insect pests of stored pearl millet varied among sociolinguistic groups. Four species of insects were associated with stored millet with the weevils Sitophilus oryzae L. and Sitophilus zeamais L. as the most important ones. …”
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VOWEL FORMANT VARIABILITY IN THE SPEECH OF PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS by Gloria Gagliardi, Chiara Meluzzi

“…For this reason, we present here a preliminary investigation on 2 Italian-speaking patients diagnosed with dementia compared with control speakers balanced for all sociolinguistic parameters. The descriptive, static and dynamic analysis mixes a quantitative and qualitative approach. …”
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