Arhiva OANCEA Costin-Valentin
Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii “Ovidius” Constanţa nr. 29/ 2018 nr 2
OANCEA COSTIN-VALENTIN - UNRAVELLING IDENTITY: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND FORENSIC LINGUISTICS
(pag. 75-82)
The language choices that we, as individuals of a social group or members pertaining to a speech community, make are paramount to the way in which we are perceived by other members. This paper focuses on the manner in which an individual can be identified by others (a sociolinguist or a forensic linguist) through his/her speech patterns. The paper also provides an overview of the tools used in sociolinguistics for speech recognition or acoustic analysis and whether these tools can also be successfully used in forensic linguistics.
Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii “Ovidius” Constanţa nr. 29/ 2018
OANCEA COSTIN-VALENTIN - WRITING IN DIALECT: WRITTEN REPRESENTATIONS OF SPEECH
(pag. 111-118)
This paper1 discusses different types of respellings (allegro speech, dialect respelling, eyedialect, semi-phonetic respelling) used by different English authors. In some contexts dialect is usually used for humorous purposes, and sometimes even to promote negative character evaluations by the readers. The representation of dialect in writing draws mainly on stereotypes, using eye-dialect or semiphonetic spelling to render some of the best-known features of a certain dialect or accent, including specific words or grammatical structures. The aim of this paper is to delve into the ways in which different English authors represent various dialects. The authors under consideration are William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Irvine Welsh, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Burns. The first four are included in what Beal (2006) calls ‘literary dialect’ while the latter in ‘dialect literature.’
Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii “Ovidius” Constanţa nr.22 / 2011 vol.1
OANCEA COSTIN-VALENTIN - Gender Exclusive Differences in Language Use
(pag. 187-199)
We are surrounded in our everyday lives by powerful commonsense ideas about speech which tell us that men and women communicate and use language in different ways. Nowadays, a major topic in sociolinguistics is the connection between language and gender. Gender differences in language use are of two types: gender-exclusive and gender-preferential, although some sociolinguists claim that the former is a myth and there are no gender-exclusive differences between the speech of men and women. The aim of this paper is to prove that these differences exist and that they are specific to traditional societies. Phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical differences will be discussed, it will be demonstrated that these gender differences really exist and that they are influenced by social factors.