Abstract. This article investigates the interface between dialect, ethnic identity, and political developments in the rural communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the cultural and linguistic differences among Croats, Serbs, and Muslims have been...
We are pleased to see the present special volume of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics, "North American Contributions to Slavic Sociolinguistics", appear in print. Due to a confluence of many different circumstances (none of which has to do with the...
The fabric of electronic discourse is language; the weavers of that fabric are the individual participants. Davis and Brewer 1997:8 Abstract: The present study analyzes electronic discussion forums in Ukrainian from a gender linguistic perspective....
Abstract. In this article it is argued that the study of linguistic landscapes (public uses of written language) can benefit from viewing them as dynamic phenomena and examining them in a diachronic context. Based on the changes in the post-Soviet...
Abstract: In this article I outline a theoretical and methodological framework for pursing a comprehensive study of the dominant issues and trends of Russian language culture from the Perestroika era through the present day. My chief claim is that...
Abstract: The renarrated mood, sometimes called the "evidential", is an innovation in Bulgarian grammar. Although it is primarily expressed with inherited forms, it includes one innovative form, a participle built on the imperfect stem of the verb....
Abstract: This article provides a general overview of North American research in Slavic sociolinguistics from the beginnings of the field at the start of the 1960s up to the present day. The work of North American scholars published in a selection...
Abstract: During fieldwork in the Slovene-minority area of Austrian Carinthia in 1998-2000, over two hundred informants were interviewed in six localities. The interviews were designed to elicit three types of data: (i) language use in social networks,...