This is a paper I wrote for Languages of the World (Lingusitics 102, Cultural Anthropology 114) about the general sociolinguistic atmosphere of Suriname. It's one of the most sparsely populated cou...
Sociolinguistic Variation
Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system
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Analysing sociolinguistic variation
The study of how language varies in social context, and how it
can be analysed and accounted for, are the two key goals of
sociolinguistics. Until now, howe...