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Guy, Gregory. 2013. The cognitive coherence of sociolects: How do speakers handle multiple sociolinguistic variables? Journal of Pragmatics 52 (1) : 63–71.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | gender | sociolect | sociolinguistics | speech community

Language as a subject

Portuguese, Brazilian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Examining intercorrelations among two phonological and two syntactic sociolinguistic variables in Brazilian Portuguese speakers, this paper concludes that some sociolectal cohesion exists, but possibly weaker and more multidimensional than generally believed.