Youth language is ever-evolving and serves an important role in development. It is more than slang—it's key in creating ...

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 language ‘engines’ that power generative artificial intelligence (AI) are plagued by a wide range of issues that can hurt society, most notably through the spread of misinformation and ...

The research of the Sociolinguistics Research Group focuses on how language is embedded in the social context of its use. This includes an interest in the ways in which language varies across time, ...

Researchers have developed a novel framework for better understanding large language models (LLMs) by integrating principles from sociolinguistics.

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 ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics differs from Interactional Sociolinguistics as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured. This structured variation ...

The language 'engines' that power generative artificial intelligence (AI) are plagued by a wide range of issues that can hurt society, most notably ...

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 ...

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives. By Clay Risen William Labov, whose innovative research ...