1 Exploratory techniques are extremely well fitted to sociolinguistic research.

2 The existence of these sets provides an important sociolinguistic resource for inner-city speakers, and their survival must surely depend on this.

3 In short, drawing a boundary between sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena is likely to be an exceedingly difficult enterprise.

4 Loanwords are an important sociolinguistic phenomenon. English loanwords are prominent in Cantonese.

5 The sociolinguistic research on these factors is still a blank field.

6 In sociolinguistic studies there are two main approaches to gender differences in language: the dominance approach and the difference approach.

7 From the sociolinguistic point of view, this paper analyses the manifestation of sex differentiation in pronunciation, intonation, lexicon and sentence structure and the causes.

8 What are the effects of sociolinguistic factors, such as social distance and gender, on use of humor?

9 The suggestion is made that perfection of sociolinguistic theories should be combined with their application.

10 Euphemism, as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, displays multiple mapping relations with community.

11 In Chapter 4, I will attempt a critical survey of sociolinguistic findings about gender-linked variation.

12 Furthermore these are claims that have actually been supported by empirical sociolinguistic research.

13 This comment was made in the early 1980s, around the time when sociolinguistic methods were undergoing some changes.

14 Variation and Identity One of the chief foci of sociolinguistic interest in monolingual speakers is variation.

15 Address forms, as an important linguistic phenomenon, have always been the object of sociolinguistic researches.

16 This thesis is aimed at studying gender differences in the use of English language from sociolinguistic perspective.

17 This paper examines linguistic sexism in current English textbooks of China primary schools from a sociolinguistic perspective.

18 The present article attempts to make a tentative of sexism in English and Chinese from the sociolinguistic perspective in terms of vocabulary, appellations, common sayings and literature.

19 The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic , and linguistic perspectives.

20 In this paper, we examine the morphosyntactic dimension of this sociolinguistic phenomenon, using the Efik-English bilinguals as our reference point.

21 First of all, in this thesis, netspeak is introduced from macro aspect, and the author defines netspeak as a language variety, based on sociolinguistic theories and Halliday's Register Theory.

22 Within each of these linguistic communities there are also big sociolinguistic and language-policy differences in different areas.

23 In this paper we study the said phenomena not only from a purely linguistic perspective, but also from a psycholinguistic and a sociolinguistic one.

24 Under the terms of linguistics, there are the grammatical perspective, the sociolinguistic perspective, the psycholinguistic perspective and the conversational analysis perspective.

25 Address forms, as an impressible linguistic phenomenon, have always been the object of sociolinguistic researches.

26 As one of the most important aspects of language, research of address forms is an attractive topic in both sociolinguistic and pragmatic field.

27 As such, the campaign during its initial period left a number of sociological and sociolinguistic questions unanswered.

28 The color research of neologism in modern Chinese not only has sociolinguistic meaning, but also has the value of Chinese lexics.

29 In their pioneering work, Brown and Gilman proposed the sociolinguistic terms power semantic and solidarity semantic for the first time, which govern the choice of the pronominal forms.