In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim
that language models in general are inherently modeling varieties of language, and we …

Since its original publication in 1997, Rosina Lippi-Green's English with an Accent has
inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, social categorization …

In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of
fake news. They define fake news as news that is meant to deceive as opposed to inform …

Activities describes Corpus Linguistics (CL) and its many relevant, creative, and engaging
applications to language teaching and learning for teachers and practitioners in TESOL and …

There is a growing trend in regional dialectology to analyse large corpora of social media
data, but it is unclear if the results of these studies can be generalized to language as a …

In this paper, we introduce a method for map** lexical innovation, which we then use to
track the origin and spread of new words on American Twitter, based on a multi-billion-word …

As global political preeminence gradually shifted from the United Kingdom to the United
States, so did the capacity to culturally influence the rest of the world. In this work, we …

Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals
the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in …

In this paper, we analyze double modal use in American English based on a multi-billion-
word corpus of geolocated posts from the social media platform Twitter. We identify and map …

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the
concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly …