Despite the emphasis on change, both synchronic and diachronic, that Sociolinguistics has, language standardization is a process that starkly reveals the social and cultural dynamics and struggles of language use, such as ...

Linguistic landscape (LL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the significance of words, images and other artifacts represented and displayed in public spaces (Shohamyand Gorter, 2009). Such instances ...

Purpose This paper investigates how language homophily between service providers and migrant consumers affects migrant consumers' intentions to engage with financial and medical service providers. Design/methodology/approach ...

This study set out to explicate, through a grounded-theory methodology, the ways in which learners (n=30) were negotiating the constituent parts of written Standard English (SE) periphrastic verb forms. The research questions ...

This paper reports on an attempt to document and use indigenous language resources as a tool for promoting science learning in a rural secondary school in Trinidad. The exploratory study involved the compilation of a ...

This article discusses a major problem experienced by Caribbean students in their learning of Standard English--inconsistency in the use of the simple past tense in written stories or narratives

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