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Vincent, Jocelyne (2000)" Talk-speak". Gioco e Ideologia nei Logonimi Inglesi. In: Le p... more Vincent, Jocelyne (2000)" Talk-speak". Gioco e Ideologia nei Logonimi Inglesi. In: Le parole per le parole. I logonimi nelle lingue e nel metalinguaggio (a cura di Cristina Vallini). Lingue, Linguaggi, Metalinguaggi (collana diretta da C. Vallini, V. Orioles). Il Calamo, Roma, pp. ...

There is hardly any need to justify a focus on variation and variability in (a) language, or inde... more There is hardly any need to justify a focus on variation and variability in (a) language, or indeed, English, today. "Variability is inherent in human behaviour" said Suzanne Romaine in her introduction to her 1992 introductory book on sociolinguistics. It was manifestly not a new insight. A half century has indeed passed fruitfully since the pioneering studies by William Labov in the 1960s, 1 and the journal Language Variation and Change which he founded in 1989 and is still the chief editor of with its three issues a year, 2 as well as other even earlier established specialist journals, such as Language in Society, founded in 1972, with its five issues a year, 3 all testify to the wide sociolinguistics enterprise's rootedness, rigour and vigour. No full-blown discussion or overview of ways in which language variation is approached, is nor could be, attempted here given the wide range of issues it has come to concern and the disciplines interested in and variously illuminating it (from sociolinguistics, ethnographical and linguistic anthropology to critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, stylistics and syntactic theory, to name but a few). My aim is merely to touch on some of the aspects which might seem most relevant to this issue. I shall simply attempt to point to, if not clarify, a few of these (while leaving untouched many albeit important and currently elsewhere salient ones, for example the status of variability or variable rules in grammatical theory). 4 I have chosen rather to address, for example, the different categories or varieties of variation and the varieties of mixing of varieties, and especially the potential confusion that could arise from the as yet wide and diverse range of taxonomic terms still found in the various fields and approaches of sociolinguistics, after having first attempted to point to something of the variation in variation studies, if only to provide a hint of some of the bumps and (albeit shallow) potholes in the terrain. Variations in variation studies/varieties of variationism The field of variation studies has recently witnessed what might seem internal critiques to previous approaches or 'waves' of study. 5 These include, for instance, that of traditional sociolinguistics or variationist sociolinguistics as being thwart with mistaken supposedly linguistics-centric ideas of staticity, rigidity, correlationism, and of fixed social categories and immobility. I shall purposely not engage with the debates, but shall assume that insights can usefully be had from all sides. The view that earlier sociolinguistics should be criticised because of its "viewing the social as a fixed and external structure that is only reflected in linguistic variability", 6 as Eckert says-while not denying the usefulness of work done in the earlier traditions she herself was trained in under its founding father, William Labov-would not necessarily, in my opinion, make the findings of any single

Vincent Marrelli, Jocelyne (1990) English for CrossTalk: Pidgin for Pentecost? In: English Past a... more Vincent Marrelli, Jocelyne (1990) English for CrossTalk: Pidgin for Pentecost? In: English Past and Present. Papers Read at the First National Conference of History of English (Bari-Naples April 1988). Biblioteca della Ricerca. Cultura Straniera (33). Schena, Fasano, pp. ...

Vincent Marrelli, Jocelyne (2003) Incontri sulla Soglia di Napoli. In: Parlare è comunicare?(Atti... more Vincent Marrelli, Jocelyne (2003) Incontri sulla Soglia di Napoli. In: Parlare è comunicare?(Atti del Convegno'Soglie della città, Lingue di accoglienza', Università di Napoli, Federico 2, per l'anno europeo delle lingue, 2001). ESI, Napoli, 133-161+ iv. ISBN ...

Comparing 4 English versions of Eduardo de Filippo's Neapolitan play "Filumena Marturano... more Comparing 4 English versions of Eduardo de Filippo's Neapolitan play "Filumena Marturano" and some reviews of their stage performances. Speculating on whether translation/adaptation styles can be gender related; too many variables concerning not only gender but also, at least, period when translated, expectations about audience preferences, depth of knowledge of the languages/cultures involved, paralinguistic and non-verbal aspects of actors' performance, etc, warn against attempting facile correlations.

Vincent, Jocelyne (2002) Affect, ergonomics and culture in setting up and managing a self-access ... more Vincent, Jocelyne (2002) Affect, ergonomics and culture in setting up and managing a self-access centre. In: L'apprendimento autonomo delle lingue straniere.(Atti del IV Seminario nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana dei Centri Linguistici Universitari (AICLU), Universitò ...

Page 1. Jocelyne M. VINCENT (Napoli - Sussex) Categorizzazione e strategie di denominazione dei c... more Page 1. Jocelyne M. VINCENT (Napoli - Sussex) Categorizzazione e strategie di denominazione dei colori: aspetti me-todologici e problemi relativi all'inglese è all'italiano1. Scopo di questa comunicazione è queiio di presentare ...

MA Bonfantini - A. Ponzio - U. Eco - H. Parket D. Wilson - J. Vincent - M. Mizzau - A. Martone G.... more MA Bonfantini - A. Ponzio - U. Eco - H. Parket D. Wilson - J. Vincent - M. Mizzau - A. Martone G. Bettetini - С Castelfranchi - M. Marrelli S. Boffa - I. Poggi - F. Pascucci - P. Ekman M. Frank - M. O&#x27;Sullivan - S. Piro - AS Bombi E. Visalberghi - L. Limongelli - RW Byrne MENZOGNA ...