Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its
varied influences across multiple generations, this volume provides true insight into how …

This article examines two of the main areas of sociolinguistic research on Latinos in the USA
and Canada, language maintenance and shift and Latino varieties of English, with emphasis …

The language of teenagers has been the subject of extensive study in recent years due to its
highly innovative nature and richness of expression. Most attention has been paid to the …

In our current era of increased globalization, constraints on language variation in
postcolonial English varieties are multifaceted. Local and global language ideologies collide …

This paper studies the sociolinguistics of quotative be like in Trinidad and its relation to
Trinidadian English Creole (TrinEC). Corpus evidence shows a significant association of be …

Academic investigations of quotative content tend to either provide detailed descriptions of
specific discourse contexts or differentiate quotative content only on a superficial level to …

We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English
(AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from …

This study explores quotative system norms within Latino communities and African American
communities in two cities in North Carolina, Durham and Hickory, to identify how social and …

We examine constructed dialogue in a longitudinal corpus of Australian Aboriginal English
(AE) spoken in Perth, Australia. We conduct a variationist analysis of naturalistic data from …

This study investigates the diffusion and structural adaptation of quotative be like into a rural
African American speech community. The data come from a longitudinal corpus of …