On Language Varieties Without Boolean Operations

Although a notable body of work has emerged describing gay male speech (GMS), its overlap with African American language (AAL) remains comparatively understudied. This chapter explores the assumption of whiteness that has informed research on gay identity and precluded intersectional considerations in sociolinguistic research. Examining the importance of racial identity, particularly Blackness, to the construction of gay identity in the United States, the chapter investigates the treatment of GMS as white by default, with the voices of gay men of color considered additive. The desire vs. identity debate in language and sexuality studies contributed to an understanding of gay identity as community-based practice, thereby laying a necessary framework for the study of GMS. However, this framework led to a virtually exclusive focus on white men’s language use. Although efforts to bring a community-based understanding to gay identity have been groundbreaking, the lack of consideration of intersectionality has erased contributions to GMS from racially based language varieties, such as AAL.

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Identity inferences: Implicatures, implications and extended interpretations

Language and Literature ◽

10.1177/0963947020969568 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 424-445

Author(s):

Billy Clark

Keyword(s):

Impression Management ◽

Video Recording ◽

House Of Commons ◽

Communicative Interaction ◽

Select Committee ◽

Communicative Acts ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Construction Of Identity ◽

And Performance

This article considers how ideas from relevance-theoretic pragmatics can be applied in understanding the construction of identity in interaction, while presupposing that consideration of ideas about identity can make a significant contribution to pragmatic theories. While previous work on pragmatics has focused on the construction and performance of identity, this has not been much discussed in work from a relevance-theoretic perspective. For illustration, the article refers mainly to a video recording of a UK House of Commons Select Committee session on drug addiction. While the video provides considerable relevant data about identity construction, the article does not develop a detailed analysis of the video or the extracts it focuses on. Instead, it uses them to argue for the usefulness of relevance-theoretic ideas in understanding identity and impression management. The ideas focused on are that communication can be stronger or weaker (i.e. it can be more or less clear that particular assumptions are being intentionally communicated), that there is no clear cut-off point between very weakly communicated implicatures and non-communicated implications, that interpretation generally involves going beyond what the communicator intended to derive the addressee’s own conclusions, that the effects of communicative interaction include more than the derivation of new assumptions and that adjustments to ‘cognitive environments’ (the sets of assumptions which are accessible to individuals at particular times) can continue after interactions take place. These ideas can be useful in a number of areas including in understanding identity in general, literary identities, attitudes to language varieties, the production of communicative acts and the teaching of spoken and written communication.

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Language Ideologies and Transnational Migration: A Study of Cape Verdeans in Galicia

Languages ◽

10.3390/languages6020099 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 99

Author(s):

Nicola Bermingham

Keyword(s):

Language Ideologies ◽

Linguistic Diversity ◽

Transnational Migration ◽

Peripheral Region ◽

Cape Verde ◽

Minority Languages ◽

Cape Verdean ◽

Language Identity ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Symbolic Resource

Changes to the global infrastructure have contributed to the growing (linguistic) diversity of large metropolises. However, there have been calls from scholars to explore “emerging superdiversity” (DePalma and Pérez-Caramés 2018) in peripheral regions in order to fully understand the complexities and nuances of the sociolinguistics of globalisation (Wang et al. 2014; Pietikäinen et al. 2016). This article, therefore, explores language ideologies among a purposive sample of five young adults of Cape Verdean origin living in the peripheral region of Galicia, Spain, and draws on interview data to examine the ways in which multilingual migrants engage with the language varieties in their linguistic repertoire. In studying immigration from a former African colony to a bilingual European context, we can see how language ideologies from the migrant community are reflected in local ones. The sociolinguistic dynamics of Cape Verde and Galicia share many similarities: both contexts are officially bilingual (Galician and Spanish in Galicia, Kriolu and Portuguese in Cape Verde), and questions regarding the hierarchisation of languages remain pertinent in both cases. The ideologies about the value and prestige of (minority) languages that Cape Verdean migrants arrive with are thus accommodated by local linguistic ideologies in Galicia, a region which has a history of linguistic minoritisation. This has important implications for the ways in which language, as a symbolic resource, is mobilised by migrants in contexts of transnational migration. The findings of this study show how migrants are key actors in (re)shaping the linguistic dynamics of their host society and how, through their practices and discourses, they challenge long-standing assumptions about language, identity and linguistic legitimacy, and call into question ethno-linguistic boundaries.

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Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Inherent Translanguaging in the Linguistic Landscape of Sarajevo

European Journal of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1515/eujal-2019-0041 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Ana Tankosić ◽

Jason Litzenberg

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Common Core ◽

Language Use ◽

Primary Language ◽

Linguistic Landscape ◽

Southeastern Europe ◽

Linguistic Identity ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Balkan Region ◽

Town Center

Abstract Language in the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe has a complex and turbulent history, acutely embodied in the tripartite and trilingual state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in which Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs all make claim to their own mutually-intelligible varieties of local “languages”. This study utilizes a linguistic landscape methodology to consider language use in Sarajevo, the capital of BiH, approximately 20 years after a brutal war that led to the establishment of the country. Data originate from three municipalities within the Sarajevo Canton – namely, Old Town, Center, and Ilidža – because of their representation of the region’s diversity and history. Signs were classified according to the three primary language varieties, i.e., Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian; BCS, representing a common core among the three varieties, as well as English, other languages, and mixed languages. The application of BCS uniquely positions the present research in comparison to other studies of language use in the region and allows for a more nuanced, less politically and ethnolinguistically fraught analysis of the communicative tendencies of users. More specifically, data indicate that actors in the linguistic landscape transcend the boundaries of their national, ethnic, and religious identities by tending towards the more neutral BCS, suggesting an orientation towards more translingual dispositions than previous variety-bound approaches have indicated. Thus, instead of the divisiveness of linguistic identity politics, the linguistic landscape of Sarajevo indicates a tendency toward inclusion and linguistic egalitarianism.

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Sense of local identity, attitudes toward dialects and language teaching: The Hungarian minority in Serbia

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics ◽

10.1515/psicl-2018-0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 115-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eleonora Kovacs Rac ◽

Sabina Halupka-Rešetar

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Group ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Large Body ◽

Value Judgments ◽

Language Retention ◽

Language Varieties ◽

The Family ◽

8Th Grade ◽

Identity Attitudes

Abstract A large body of academic literature (e.g. Fishman 1977, 1999; Giles and Johnson 1981; Romaine 2000, among others) claims that language is one of the most significant markers of ethnic identification and that it plays a crucial role not only in the external perception of an ethnic group by outsiders but also in the selfidentification of an ethnic group. In a minority environment, sense of ethnic identity and language retention are connected very tightly, which is why it is of extreme importance to study attitudes towards the dialects of a language and value judgments about them. The paper presents the results of a research into attitudes toward dialects, conducted with approximately three hundred 5th and 8th grade pupils (age 12 and 15, respectively) attending school in Hungarian in two regions of Vojvodina, Serbia. It explores the subjects’ local features of identity, given that the research was conducted in eight different localities. The results of the research serve as a sound basis for developing use-centered, functional-situational mother tongue education of Hungarian minority pupils living in Serbia, since the current curriculum completely disregards the language varieties of many Hungarian minority pupils brought up and living in rural areas, who acquire and use the dialect spoken in the family.

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Sign language varieties of Indonesia

Sign Language & Linguistics ◽

10.1075/sll.20.1.06pal ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 135-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nick Palfreyman

Keyword(s):

Sign Language ◽

Language Varieties

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Boolean operations mediated by an ion-pair receptor of a multi-readout molecular logic gate

Chemical Communications ◽

10.1039/c3cc45377d ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 49 (94) ◽

pp. 11056 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Raúl Gotor ◽

Ana M. Costero ◽

Salvador Gil ◽

Margarita Parra ◽

Pablo Gaviña ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Logic Gate ◽

Ion Pair ◽

Boolean Operations ◽

Molecular Logic Gate ◽

Molecular Logic

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A Hybrid Analytical, Solid Modeler and Feature-Based Methodology for Extracting Tool-Workpiece Engagements in Turning

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.2752818 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 192-202 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jing Zhou ◽

Derek Yip-Hoi ◽

Xuemei Huang

Keyword(s):

Analytical Solution ◽

Critical Points ◽

Cutting Forces ◽

Cutting Tool ◽

Critical Component ◽

Turning Process ◽

Boolean Operations ◽

Feature Based ◽

Solid Modeler ◽

Turning System

In order to optimize turning processes, cutting forces need to be accurately predicted. This in turn requires accurate extraction of the geometry of tool-workpiece engagements (TWE) at critical points during machining. TWE extraction is challenging because the in-process workpiece geometry is continually changing as each tool pass is executed. This paper describes research on a hybrid analytical, solid modeler, and feature-based methodology for extracting TWEs generated during general turning. Although a pure solid modeler-based solution can be applied, it will be shown that because of the ability to capture different cutting tool inserts with similar geometry and to model the process in 2D, an analytical solution can be used instead of the solid modeler in many instances. This solution identifies features in the removal volumes, where the engagement conditions are not changing or changing predictably. This leads to significant reductions in the number of Boolean operations that are executed during the extraction of TWEs and associated parameters required for modeling a turning process. TWE extraction is a critical component of a virtual turning system currently under development.

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How are speech sound disorders perceived among children? A qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews with 10–11-year-old children

Child Language Teaching and Therapy ◽

10.1177/0265659021995538 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026565902199553

Author(s):

Camilla Nilsson ◽

Jill Nyberg ◽

Sofia Strömbergsson

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Focus Group ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Speech Sound ◽

Speech Sound Disorders ◽

Focus Group Interviews ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Speech Characteristics ◽

Animated Film ◽

Group Interviews

The aims of this study were to identify children’s reactions towards speech sound disorders (SSD) in other children and whether these reactions can be related to specific speech characteristics. Six audio samples, each containing minute-long resumes of short animated film by five children with SSDs and one child with typical speech (TS), aged 5–9 years, were played back to 17 10–11-year-olds, during four focus group interviews. The transcribed interviews underwent a qualitative content analysis. The analysis resulted in five identified main themes of listener reactions, concerning the experiences as a listener, the perspective of the speaker, as well as observations of speech characteristics. Reactions of empathy were expressed towards a perceived misalignment between speaker age and speech production proficiency. Awareness of peer reactions are clinically useful, for the understanding and acknowledgement of everyday contextual factors of children with SSDs, during planning and motivation of speech intervention. The children’s self-selected terminology may serve future quantitative investigations to further determine the boundaries of acceptability towards SSDs as well as towards non-standard sociolects or language varieties.

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