Lars Hinrichs
Biographic Data
| ID | 149599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Hinrichs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinrichs |
| SIGNATURE | HINRICHS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3679-1927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Canadian language attitudes from “coast to coast to coast”
The present paper explores key aspects of the linguistic autonomy and the character, recognition and social embedding of “Standard Canadian English” (StCanE). Only a few studies have hitherto investigated the phenomenon of linguistic attitudes in Canada and have either focussed on impressionistic assessment or on linguistic insecurity among Canadian English (CanE) speakers. The present paper is based on a national questionnaire survey in all Cana…
Capturing Fine-Grained Regional Differences in Language Use through Voting Precinct Embeddings
Linguistic variation across a region of interest can be captured by partitioning the region into areas and using social media data to train embeddings that represent language use in those areas. Recent work has focused on larger areas, such as cities or counties, to ensure that enough social media data is available in each area, but larger areas have a limited ability to find fine-grained distinctions, such as intracity differences in language us…
Introduction
Diaspora offers a fruitful and narrower approach to language and mobility than the study of globalization. By making the historical footprint of mobility evident, diaspora allows analysts to identify the tension between ideologies of language and ethnonational belonging, and patterns of mobility that destabilize them. This special issue features a series of case studies of that tension and its linguistic manifestations, and adds empirical evidenc…
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Alternation among restrictive relativizers in written Standard English is undergoing a massive shift from which to that . In corpora of written-edited-published British and American English covering the period from 1961-1992, American English spearheads this change. We study 16,868 restrictive relative clauses with inanimate antecedents from the Brown quartet of corpora. Predictors include additional areas of variation regulated by prescriptivism…
Variation in the Caribbean
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the d…
Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling
This paper contributes to a small, but quickly growing body of literature that looks at orthographic variation as a semiotic resource with which social stances and relations are expressed and created. First, we analyze a corpus of blog and email writing from Jamaica and its diaspora — two settings in which both Jamaican Creole (JC) and a local standard of English are in use. Here, spelling is studied quantitatively as an expression of community-l…
St Helenian English. Origins, Evolution and Variation by Daniel Schreier
Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin
Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin, both English-derived contact languages that coexist with standard English (StE) in their respective settings, are traditionally oral languages for which no orthographic standard has yet been established. Aided by a significant increase in written usage in computer-mediated communication (CMC), the past decade has seen tendencies towards grass-roots standardization in the orthography of these two languages. In …
Introduction
Diaspora offers a fruitful and narrower approach to language and mobility than the study of globalization. By making the historical footprint of mobility evident, diaspora allows analysts to identify the tension between ideologies of language and ethnonational belonging, and patterns of mobility that destabilize them. This special issue features a series of case studies of that tension and its linguistic manifestations, and adds empirical evidenc…
Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin
Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin, both English-derived contact languages that coexist with standard English (StE) in their respective settings, are traditionally oral languages for which no orthographic standard has yet been established. Aided by a significant increase in written usage in computer-mediated communication (CMC), the past decade has seen tendencies towards grass-roots standardization in the orthography of these two languages. In …
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Alternation among restrictive relativizers in written Standard English is undergoing a massive shift from which to that . In corpora of written-edited-published British and American English covering the period from 1961-1992, American English spearheads this change. We study 16,868 restrictive relative clauses with inanimate antecedents from the Brown quartet of corpora. Predictors include additional areas of variation regulated by prescriptivism…
Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling
This paper contributes to a small, but quickly growing body of literature that looks at orthographic variation as a semiotic resource with which social stances and relations are expressed and created. First, we analyze a corpus of blog and email writing from Jamaica and its diaspora — two settings in which both Jamaican Creole (JC) and a local standard of English are in use. Here, spelling is studied quantitatively as an expression of community-l…
Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin
Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin, both English-derived contact languages that coexist with standard English (StE) in their respective settings, are traditionally oral languages for which no orthographic standard has yet been established. Aided by a significant increase in written usage in computer-mediated communication (CMC), the past decade has seen tendencies towards grass-roots standardization in the orthography of these two languages. In …
St Helenian English. Origins, Evolution and Variation by Daniel Schreier
Variation in the Caribbean
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the d…
Global Englishes and the sociolinguistics of spelling
This paper contributes to a small, but quickly growing body of literature that looks at orthographic variation as a semiotic resource with which social stances and relations are expressed and created. First, we analyze a corpus of blog and email writing from Jamaica and its diaspora — two settings in which both Jamaican Creole (JC) and a local standard of English are in use. Here, spelling is studied quantitatively as an expression of community-l…
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Alternation among restrictive relativizers in written Standard English is undergoing a massive shift from which to that . In corpora of written-edited-published British and American English covering the period from 1961-1992, American English spearheads this change. We study 16,868 restrictive relative clauses with inanimate antecedents from the Brown quartet of corpora. Predictors include additional areas of variation regulated by prescriptivism…
Introduction
Diaspora offers a fruitful and narrower approach to language and mobility than the study of globalization. By making the historical footprint of mobility evident, diaspora allows analysts to identify the tension between ideologies of language and ethnonational belonging, and patterns of mobility that destabilize them. This special issue features a series of case studies of that tension and its linguistic manifestations, and adds empirical evidenc…
Capturing Fine-Grained Regional Differences in Language Use through Voting Precinct Embeddings
Linguistic variation across a region of interest can be captured by partitioning the region into areas and using social media data to train embeddings that represent language use in those areas. Recent work has focused on larger areas, such as cities or counties, to ensure that enough social media data is available in each area, but larger areas have a limited ability to find fine-grained distinctions, such as intracity differences in language us…
Canadian language attitudes from “coast to coast to coast”
The present paper explores key aspects of the linguistic autonomy and the character, recognition and social embedding of “Standard Canadian English” (StCanE). Only a few studies have hitherto investigated the phenomenon of linguistic attitudes in Canada and have either focussed on impressionistic assessment or on linguistic insecurity among Canadian English (CanE) speakers. The present paper is based on a national questionnaire survey in all Cana…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American English (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)