Ghalia (2016 An investigation of sociolinguistic variation.
Thekiso, Elma (2001) A sociolinguistic study of communication processes in a court of law in Gaborone, Botswana. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.This dissertation examines the linguistic and social correlates of early language shift in a Garifuna. community in Belize. An apparent time analysis shows an externally-motivated change in the status of the. sociolinguistic variable (ch) that is evidence for a shift in the dominant language in the community.The following thesis is a sociolinguistic study carried out in 2009 in Galicia in northern Spain. This is a region with a particular sociolinguistic context which stems from the area’s sociolinguistic, political and economic history. The focus of this thesis is language use in various social contexts.
The research seeks to demonstrate not only that variation exists in L2 speech but also that such variation is explainable in terms of describable linguistic and nonlinguistic variables. This contradicts the assumption, implicit in most existing contrastive analyses, that L2 speech of speakers with the same L1 background is homogenous and monolectal.Through the fine-grained phonetic analysis of the linguistic variables BIT, CAT and (TH), coupled with ethnographic observations, this thesis shows how an apparently homogenous group of speakers use linguistic and social resources to differentiate themselves from one another.
The present study examines the use of morpho-syntactic features in Early Modern English sermons and aims to offer fresh insights into the language variation and change in the specific genres of sermons and to discuss how micro-sociolinguistic community frameworks such as the notions of discourse community and community of practice may be effectively employed to relate the relationship between.
