Sociolinguistics – Page 12

Code-Switching Between Mandarin Chinese and English: Do You Use “lol” or “xswl”?

Wenqian Guo, Sum Yi Li, Yichen Lyu, Sok Kwan Wong, Yingge Zhou Code-switching has become increasingly common as globalization allows international exchanges across cultures to take place more frequently. And as studying abroad becomes more accessible to students around the world, more speech communities with distinctive code-switching patterns are being formed. As we pondered the […]

Casual Conversation, Code-Switching, International Students, Mandarin, School Conversation, Sensitive Topics

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Hedging and Gender in the STEM Community

Sociolinguistics

Eric Chen, Abbey Mae Gozon, Khoi Nguyen, Paul Vu, Julia Wang Hedging is an aspect of language that is easy for non-linguists to overlook. These terms are used to apply uncertainty to a statement, to make it seem less assertive. The question we seek to answer is, do women make more use of hedging than

gender

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Fun, Cool, Hip Title Here: AAVE Usage in Twitter Memes

Sociolinguistics

Nick Ushiyama, Stella Oganesyan, Ava Boehm, Rachel Lee, Alesha Vaughn Love them or hate them, almost everyone active on social media has come into contact with memes at some point. Chances are, one or more of those memes used a variety of English called AAVE, or African American Vernacular English. This variety originated from working-class

AAVE, Code-Switching, Memes

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Speech Patterns as Identity Constructors Across Social Media Platforms

Sociolinguistics

Alissa McNerney, Akina Nishi, Ryley Park, Nicolas Simone, Fontanna Yee As slang and social media usage has risen in popularity in recent years, we wanted to explore how different patterns of slang would change a speaker’s identity on different social media platforms. Although we initially thought that examining slang alone would give us a good

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Does She Listen to ‘Girl in Red’? Linguistic Markers in WLW Flirting

Sociolinguistics

Tiffany Dang, Brianna Lombardo, Carlos Salvador Vasquez, Denisa Tudorache, Yuyin Yang The present article focused on linguistic markers that are adopted by the Women Loving Women (WLW) population when identifying potential members of the WLW community. More specifically, this study focused on the strategies used by members of the WLW community for identifying fellow WLW

flirting, gender, Language, romantic advances, sexual identity, Women Loving Women

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“It’s not always negative, but sometimes it is”: Exclusivity in sororities vs. cottagecore communities

Sociolinguistics

Sandra Fulop, David Huang, Yinling Li, Joyana Rosenthal An important part of college is finding a space to belong. For marginalized students such as LGBTQ women, this can also be the most difficult part. Although there are often groups such as Gay-Straight Alliances or LGBTQ resource centers, these revolve entirely around the LGBTQ identity. But

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“Sorry, I Didn’t Quite Get That: The Misidentification of AAVE by Voice Recognition Software”

Sociolinguistics

Shannon McCarty, Lam Pham, Alora Thresher, Alexandria Wasgatt, Emma Whamond This study investigates the transcription accuracy by AI speech recognition systems using natural language processing when interpreting standard American English dialects (SAE) versus African American Vernacular English (AAVE). We inspect the percentage of misidentified words, and the degree to which the speech is misidentified, by

Language, Race, Technology

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They and Them: Gender Inclusivity Across Languages

Sociolinguistics

Alexander Gonzalez, Maeneka Grewal, Nico Hy, Zoe Perrin, Vivian San Gabriel The relevance of gender-neutral language has surged due to growing acceptance towards nonbinary and gender non-conforming people as well as the dissolution of the gender binary. Through comparative analysis of native English and Spanish speakers, we investigated the impact of grammatical gender on the

English pronouns, gender, Gender inclusivity, gender neutrality, inclusive language, Spanish pronouns

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“I’m Sorry”: A comparative study of gender and individual differences in applying apology strategies in YouTube videos

Sociolinguistics

Kristin Nguyen, Luxuan Huang, Vanessa Zhu, Andrea Mata, Shiyun Zhou In recent years apology videos have become a very popular tactic used by social media influencers in efforts to help restore their online image. This study will compare and contrast the apology strategies used in 3 male and 3 female YouTuber apology videos by investigating

apology strategies, apology YouTube videos, gender, gender differences, sociolinguistics

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