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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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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“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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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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