As my view of linguistic phenomena involved in the formation of subjectivity has expanded, I have turned more attention to the role of embodiment in everyday interaction. My interest in the body’s ...

The focus for a linguistic study must have a purpose and that purpose must be to answer a particular linguistic or social question. The way in which it is studied is through sociolinguistic theory and ...

Patricia Uberoi, J P S UberoiUntil his sudden and untimely death at the end of 1975, Prabodh Pandit was one of the foremost among modern Indian linguists and a pioneer in the expanding field of ...

The research of the Sociolinguistics Research Group focuses on how language is embedded in the social context of its use. Our research is interested in the ways in which language varies across time, ...

Automated speech recognition (ASR), which converts spoken language into text, is used in varied contexts such as medical translation services, crisis management, dictation, and closed captioning.

“It begins with the simple act of noticing a variation – that there are two alternative ways of saying the same thing” [1] Labov’s quote here is pretty self-explanatory of what sociolinguistic ...