Registerial Adaptation vs. Innovation Across Situational Contexts: 18th Century Women in Transition

Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania; Säily, Tanja; Bizzoni, Yuri

doi:10.3389/frai.2021.609970

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“…Degaetano‐Ortlieb et al. (2021) show the roles men and women assume in language change, which is a result which further strengthens the focus of the current paper on gendered language.…”

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“…It also contains information about the length of utterances and the number of utterances in a trial and whether a defendant speaks or is silent. A recent illustrative example of sociolinguistic study of language in the Old Bailey court has been carried out by Degaetano-Ortlieb et al (2021). Degaetano-Ortlieb et al (2021) show the roles men and women assume in language change, which is a result which further strengthens the focus of the current paper on gendered language.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…A recent illustrative example of sociolinguistic study of language in the Old Bailey court has been carried out by Degaetano‐Ortlieb et al. (2021). Degaetano‐Ortlieb et al.…”

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Cognitive Sociolinguistic Variation in the Old Bailey Voices Corpus: The Case for a New Concept‐Led Framework

Robinson

Weeds

2022

Trans of the Philol Soc

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The current paper contributes to a greater understanding of concepts in the context of cognitive sociolinguistic variation. We show how concepts, which we root in thesauribased units, co-occur with other concepts and how they vary between and within groups of speakers as represented in historical transcripts from the Old Bailey court. In order to carry out distributional sociosemantic analysis at a conceptual level we have developed a tool which combines word sense disambiguation with dependency analysis, which we refer to as Conceptual Dependency Corpus. A case study of gendered concepts from the Old Bailey Voices Corpus demonstrates that there are differences in the usage of concepts both within and between sociodemographic groupings of speakers. In particular, the co-occurrence distributions of the concepts MAN, WOMAN and CHILD vary according to a speaker's gender and role in the court. By introducing methodological innovations, we empirically elicit socioconceptual polysemy, that is different speakers using the same concept in different ways and propose a framework to analyse and interpret this phenomenon. The results also provide support for engaging computational semantics in researching cognitive and sociolinguistic phenomena.

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“…Degaetano‐Ortlieb et al. (2021) show the roles men and women assume in language change, which is a result which further strengthens the focus of the current paper on gendered language.…”

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Cognitive Sociolinguistic Variation in the Old Bailey Voices Corpus: The Case for a New Concept‐Led Framework

Robinson

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2022

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“…Crucially, it does not take into account that productivity profiles of rivalling suffixes may not only be specific to individual speakers, but are also known to differ by register (Plag, Dalton-Puffer & Baayen 1999;Säily 2014;Degaetano-Ortlieb, Säily & Bizzoni 2021) and context. For example, speakers whose vocabulary approximates the 'full' Lexicon may still make different choices among the two rivalling suffixes depending on the context in which the word occurs (e.g.…”

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Different lexicons make different rivals

Arndt‐Lappe

2023

Word Structure

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Analogy-based theories assume that in situations of affix competition, language users create novel word forms on the basis of similar existing forms in their Mental Lexicons ( Baayen et al. 2011 ; Daelemans & van den Bosch 2005; Skousen 1989 ). Interestingly, however, simulation studies employing computational implementations of analogical theories have almost invariably adopted a rather abstractionist view of the Mental Lexicon, representing the word stock of the language, and abstracting away from differences between individual speakers (see, e.g., Arndt-Lappe 2014 ; Chapman & Skousen 2005 ; Eddington 2006 ; Nieder et al. 2021 ). This is a problem because it precludes the possibility of testing a central prediction of analogical theories: if affixes are assigned on the fly on the basis of similar words in the lexicon, then speakers with different lexicons should make different choices. The present paper provides a proof-of-concept study addressing this issue for the form-based rivalry between the two English adjectival suffixes - ic and - ical. Analogical Modeling of Language (AML; Skousen et al. 2013 ) is used as a computational model. On the basis of a survey of the distribution of derivatives in different registers in the British National Corpus, predictions of the analogical model are compared for a simulated speaker with a large vocabulary (including academic words) and a simulated speaker with a small vocabulary that is based mainly on words from spoken language. The statistical analysis of the simulations reveals that, while sharing some basic properties, the two models make very clear – and testable – predictions about speaker differences.

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Changing styles of letter-writing?

Säily,

Vartiainen,

Siirtola

et al. 2024

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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We analyse the social embedding of stylistic change in the frequencies of nouns, lexical verbs and personal pronouns in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Our visualization methods show that the frequency of nouns exhibits a consistent decrease, while that of verbs and pronouns tends to increase over time. This suggests a colloquialization of the letter genre, which is particularly prominent in letters by women and the upper ranks as well as those written to socially close recipients. In the later eighteenth century, however, there is a convergence across genders and social ranks indicating the development of a shared, polite style among the increasingly highly educated middle and upper classes in the corpus.

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Registerial Adaptation vs. Innovation Across Situational Contexts: 18th Century Women in Transition

Cited by 7 publications

References 99 publications

Cognitive Sociolinguistic Variation in the Old Bailey Voices Corpus: The Case for a New Concept‐Led Framework

Cognitive Sociolinguistic Variation in the Old Bailey Voices Corpus: The Case for a New Concept‐Led Framework

Different lexicons make different rivals

Changing styles of letter-writing?

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