approches variationnistes et sociolinguistique

English translation: variationist sociolinguistic approach

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French term or phrase:approche variationniste et sociolinguistique
English translation:variationist sociolinguistic approach
Entered by: philgoddard

17:12 Feb 5, 2015
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French term or phrase: approches variationnistes et sociolinguistique
qui peut me dire ce que sont des approches variationnistes ? et comment on traduit ce terme en anglais
merci
Martine Yesler
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variationist sociolinguistic approaches
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"Variationist sociolinguistics differs from interactional sociolinguistics, as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured."
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variationist sociolinguistic approaches


Explanation:
"Variationist sociolinguistics differs from interactional sociolinguistics, as it focuses on social variation in dialects and examines how this variation is highly structured."



    https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/all-about-linguistics/branches/sociolinguistics/variationist-sociolinguistics
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agree  Michele Fauble
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agree  writeaway
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agree  Sheri P: more elegant than the original
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variationist and sociolinguistic approaches


Explanation:
I think the "and" is needed here, FWIW

Sociohistorical and variationist approaches to syntactic ...
personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/li11/Mich5.pdf


7 Nov 2011 - Lecture 5: Sociohistorical and variationist approaches to syntactic change. 1. Do we need a sociohistorical approach to syntactic change?
sociolinguistic approaches to sla - Department of English
www.english.wisc.edu/rfyoung/young1999.pdf

by R Young - ‎1999 - ‎Cited by 106 - ‎Related articles
Sociolinguistic approaches to SLA have been very popular in recent years ... sociolinguistic research in SLA: pragmatics, classroom second and foreign.



liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:02
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neutral  philgoddard: Variational/variationist is a branch of sociolinguistics, so this is like saying "modern and languages". Also, your references don't say "variationist and sociolinguistic", so they're not relevant.
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  -> fair enough, no problem...
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