Interactional Sociolinguists focus on language in its social context, the language used in interaction by closely observing a “speech event” in a particular community. Ethnographic research is used to ...

Disciplinary perspectives -- Methodologies -- Bilingualism and language contact -- Language policy, language ideology, and language atitudes -- Sociolinguists, the professions, and the public interest ...

Work in emerging fields such as sociologies of science and interactional sociolinguistics has raised new questions about how science is defined and what science education entails. This article ...

This track focuses on the role of language in social life. Students in the SAIL track will be introduced to a variety of theories and methods for analyzing language in diverse sociocultural, ...

Variationist Sociolinguistics differs from Interactional Sociolinguistics as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured. This structured variation ...