Terttu Nevalainen is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki, director of the VARIENG National Centre of Excellence 2001–2005 and 2006-2011, and Academy Professor ...

This module provides an in-depth investigation of linguistic variation as a social phenomenon. Building on the knowledge acquired in LIN404 Introduction to Sociolinguistic Variation, we identify the ...

The multimodal construction of affective stance in ASMR performance media Over the past decade, a novel genre of performance has arisen among online communities devoted to the experience of Autonomous ...

The STRATAS project studies language change by developing tools that enable us to ask questions that have until now been too labour-intensive to answer. These tools are being developed by computer ...

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 ...

Language, you will not be surprised to know, keeps on changing. This change does not occur only within a country or across the geographical regions but takes place across the social and ethnic ...

This book by Janet Holmes offers an easy-to-understand overview of what sociolinguistics is and why Sociolinguists study the topic. It also goes further into the relationship between sociolinguistics ...

Language, you will not be surprised to know, keeps on changing. This change does not occur only within a country or across the geographical regions but takes place across the social and ethnic ...