Julia Davydova
Biographic Data
| ID | 221377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Davydova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Davydova |
| SIGNATURE | DAVYDOVA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pädagogische Hochschule Vorarlberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3442-9011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indian English
This contribution treats Indian English, its genesis, its acquisitional contexts, and its major sociolinguistic uses. In so doing, it contextualizes this linguistic variety within the broader context detailing the history of language contact in South Asia. Here, I demonstrate how over the centuries, Indian English has become an essential part of the linguistic landscape of India naturally underpinning and uniting its millennia‐long multilingualis…
Reconstructing American English in a globally available mass media product: Intensifiers in the television series Gilmore Girls
The role played by mass media in the propagation of structured variability is a challenging sociolinguistic issue. Current models propose that the study of possible media effects on (non-)acquired speech patterns must involve comparisons across source speech communities, adopting speech communities and mass media texts. The present study sets out to explore language-specific and sociolinguistic conditioning underlying the use of intensifiers in t…
Tracking global English changes through local data: Intensifiers in German Learner English
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The empirical goal of the paper is to document the linguistic distribution and patterning as well as the sociolinguistic conditioning of intensifiers in English spoken by educated young adults from Germany. Here, I also seek to understand how the empirical data presented here informs our understanding of the mechanisms underlying language change in those forms of English that emerge through the comb…
EFL Adolescents' Use of English in the Era of New Digital Media: An Empirical Investigation
The study reported here sets out to investigate to what extent Generation Z EFL speakers employ English in their linguistic practices on digital media platforms and how these compare to the patterns of English use on other social occasions. To that end, 630 adolescents (aged 14 to 18) from five grammar schools were targeted in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg. Results of a 27‐item survey pinpoint young individuals’ habitual reliance on English…
Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English
English as the world language in traditional contexts: Evidence from Vorarlberg
The study explores the extent to which linguistic globalisation and the ever increasing dominance of English shapes the perceptions of linguistic diversity in traditional sociolinguistic milieus. We set out to investigate the attitudes of 142 respondents from Vorarlberg, an Austrian province, towards their home dialects, High German, a local standardised variety, and English. While drawing on a verbal guise test (VGT) and a questionnaire as the m…
The role of social factors in the acquisition of vernacular English: A variationist study with pedagogical implications
The study reported here explores the role of various social factors in the L2 acquisition of vernacular variation. In so doing, it investigates acquisition of probabilistic constraints on the use of a globally available innovation, quotative be like , as a diagnostic linguistic variable. Drawing on data obtained from 37 individuals from three age cohorts all living in Mannheim, Germany, and applying the variationist method of evaluation, I show t…
The role of linguistic structure in the perceptions of vernacular speech: Evidence from L1 English and English as a foreign language
This study explores the role of linguistic structure in speakers’ perceptions of vernacular English, i.e. speech used in informal interactions. In so doing, it tests the assumptions of the Interface Principle ( Labov 1993 ) and its major claim that semantic and discourse-pragmatic features will elicit a greater degree of social awareness than morphosyntactic variants ( Levon and Buchstaller 2015 ). Relying on data obtained from 372 respondents, w…
The role of sociocognitive salience in the acquisition of structured variation and linguistic diffusion: Evidence from quotative be like
Quotative be like is a much discussed variable linguistic feature recruited in this investigation in order to revisit the hypothesis of linguistic diffusion (Labov 2007) predicting re-ordering of original patterns by L2 populations. As a sociocognitively salient variant spreading above the level of conscious awareness, be like has been appropriated by adult speakers from two distinctive L2 English ecologies with a high degree of precision, a find…
English in Germany: Evidence from domains of use and attitudes
This paper discusses the changing role of English in Germany drawing on evidence from domains of English use and speakers attitudes. In so doing, it reports two case studies carried out at the University of Mannheim, Germany. The quantitative data and its methods of evaluation are discussed in the sections reporting case studies. The first study documents the use of English across formal and informal settings as well as in spontaneous interaction…
Quotative like in the Englishes of the Outer and Expanding Circles
The study aims at revising the major dichotomy between the Outer and Expanding Circles respectively. Taking the traditional sociolinguistic model of world Englishes as a starting point of discussion, I discuss the argument that classical macrosociolinguistic descriptions of linguistic varieties are helpful accounts that have also proven to be useful heuristic devices in the study of global variation as it is attested in English. Taking the lingui…
Acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness by German learners of English: A study in perceptions of quotative be like
This article examines the perception of the quotatives
Expanding the Circle to Learner English: Investigating Quotative Marking in a German Student Community
This article is concerned with the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation, which is central to native speaker competence. It explores the acquisition of variable quotative marking within the local Learner English ecology in a cohort of German students. The data consist of 809 instances of quotation produced by 45 speakers, all of whom are currently completing their bachelor's and master's degrees and who have different exposure types to English…
Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education
This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for the field. Linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism are complex, mufti-faceted phenomena that need to be studied from different, comp…
Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation
Englishes in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A comparative study
The major objective of the study is to develop a framework allowing for the systematic investigation of the institutionalised varieties and performance varieties of English (also known as learner Englishes). This involves a detailed description of the forms of English spoken in India and in Russia as well as discussion of sociolinguistic histories and cultural background. Relying on evidence obtained for Indian English and English spoken in Russi…
The Present Perfect in Non-Native Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study of Variation
This is an innovative study of variation of the English present perfect that offers analyses of interestingly diverse data sets of non-native English and addresses some of the hotly debated issues in variationist sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and research on linguistic complexity
Expanding the Circle to Learner English: Investigating Quotative Marking in a German Student Community
This article is concerned with the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation, which is central to native speaker competence. It explores the acquisition of variable quotative marking within the local Learner English ecology in a cohort of German students. The data consist of 809 instances of quotation produced by 45 speakers, all of whom are currently completing their bachelor's and master's degrees and who have different exposure types to English…
Englishes in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A comparative study
The major objective of the study is to develop a framework allowing for the systematic investigation of the institutionalised varieties and performance varieties of English (also known as learner Englishes). This involves a detailed description of the forms of English spoken in India and in Russia as well as discussion of sociolinguistic histories and cultural background. Relying on evidence obtained for Indian English and English spoken in Russi…
Acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness by German learners of English: A study in perceptions of quotative be like
This article examines the perception of the quotatives
The role of sociocognitive salience in the acquisition of structured variation and linguistic diffusion: Evidence from quotative be like
Quotative be like is a much discussed variable linguistic feature recruited in this investigation in order to revisit the hypothesis of linguistic diffusion (Labov 2007) predicting re-ordering of original patterns by L2 populations. As a sociocognitively salient variant spreading above the level of conscious awareness, be like has been appropriated by adult speakers from two distinctive L2 English ecologies with a high degree of precision, a find…
The Present Perfect in Non-Native Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study of Variation
This is an innovative study of variation of the English present perfect that offers analyses of interestingly diverse data sets of non-native English and addresses some of the hotly debated issues in variationist sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and research on linguistic complexity
Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English
EFL Adolescents' Use of English in the Era of New Digital Media: An Empirical Investigation
The study reported here sets out to investigate to what extent Generation Z EFL speakers employ English in their linguistic practices on digital media platforms and how these compare to the patterns of English use on other social occasions. To that end, 630 adolescents (aged 14 to 18) from five grammar schools were targeted in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg. Results of a 27‐item survey pinpoint young individuals’ habitual reliance on English…
Quotative like in the Englishes of the Outer and Expanding Circles
The study aims at revising the major dichotomy between the Outer and Expanding Circles respectively. Taking the traditional sociolinguistic model of world Englishes as a starting point of discussion, I discuss the argument that classical macrosociolinguistic descriptions of linguistic varieties are helpful accounts that have also proven to be useful heuristic devices in the study of global variation as it is attested in English. Taking the lingui…
The Present Perfect in Non-Native Englishes: A Corpus-Based Study of Variation
This is an innovative study of variation of the English present perfect that offers analyses of interestingly diverse data sets of non-native English and addresses some of the hotly debated issues in variationist sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and research on linguistic complexity
Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation
Englishes in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A comparative study
The major objective of the study is to develop a framework allowing for the systematic investigation of the institutionalised varieties and performance varieties of English (also known as learner Englishes). This involves a detailed description of the forms of English spoken in India and in Russia as well as discussion of sociolinguistic histories and cultural background. Relying on evidence obtained for Indian English and English spoken in Russi…
Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education
This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for the field. Linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism are complex, mufti-faceted phenomena that need to be studied from different, comp…
Expanding the Circle to Learner English: Investigating Quotative Marking in a German Student Community
This article is concerned with the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation, which is central to native speaker competence. It explores the acquisition of variable quotative marking within the local Learner English ecology in a cohort of German students. The data consist of 809 instances of quotation produced by 45 speakers, all of whom are currently completing their bachelor's and master's degrees and who have different exposure types to English…
Acquisition of sociolinguistic awareness by German learners of English: A study in perceptions of quotative be like
This article examines the perception of the quotatives
Quotative like in the Englishes of the Outer and Expanding Circles
The study aims at revising the major dichotomy between the Outer and Expanding Circles respectively. Taking the traditional sociolinguistic model of world Englishes as a starting point of discussion, I discuss the argument that classical macrosociolinguistic descriptions of linguistic varieties are helpful accounts that have also proven to be useful heuristic devices in the study of global variation as it is attested in English. Taking the lingui…
English in Germany: Evidence from domains of use and attitudes
This paper discusses the changing role of English in Germany drawing on evidence from domains of English use and speakers attitudes. In so doing, it reports two case studies carried out at the University of Mannheim, Germany. The quantitative data and its methods of evaluation are discussed in the sections reporting case studies. The first study documents the use of English across formal and informal settings as well as in spontaneous interaction…
The role of linguistic structure in the perceptions of vernacular speech: Evidence from L1 English and English as a foreign language
This study explores the role of linguistic structure in speakers’ perceptions of vernacular English, i.e. speech used in informal interactions. In so doing, it tests the assumptions of the Interface Principle ( Labov 1993 ) and its major claim that semantic and discourse-pragmatic features will elicit a greater degree of social awareness than morphosyntactic variants ( Levon and Buchstaller 2015 ). Relying on data obtained from 372 respondents, w…
The role of sociocognitive salience in the acquisition of structured variation and linguistic diffusion: Evidence from quotative be like
Quotative be like is a much discussed variable linguistic feature recruited in this investigation in order to revisit the hypothesis of linguistic diffusion (Labov 2007) predicting re-ordering of original patterns by L2 populations. As a sociocognitively salient variant spreading above the level of conscious awareness, be like has been appropriated by adult speakers from two distinctive L2 English ecologies with a high degree of precision, a find…
The role of social factors in the acquisition of vernacular English: A variationist study with pedagogical implications
The study reported here explores the role of various social factors in the L2 acquisition of vernacular variation. In so doing, it investigates acquisition of probabilistic constraints on the use of a globally available innovation, quotative be like , as a diagnostic linguistic variable. Drawing on data obtained from 37 individuals from three age cohorts all living in Mannheim, Germany, and applying the variationist method of evaluation, I show t…
English as the world language in traditional contexts: Evidence from Vorarlberg
The study explores the extent to which linguistic globalisation and the ever increasing dominance of English shapes the perceptions of linguistic diversity in traditional sociolinguistic milieus. We set out to investigate the attitudes of 142 respondents from Vorarlberg, an Austrian province, towards their home dialects, High German, a local standardised variety, and English. While drawing on a verbal guise test (VGT) and a questionnaire as the m…
Tracking global English changes through local data: Intensifiers in German Learner English
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The empirical goal of the paper is to document the linguistic distribution and patterning as well as the sociolinguistic conditioning of intensifiers in English spoken by educated young adults from Germany. Here, I also seek to understand how the empirical data presented here informs our understanding of the mechanisms underlying language change in those forms of English that emerge through the comb…
EFL Adolescents' Use of English in the Era of New Digital Media: An Empirical Investigation
The study reported here sets out to investigate to what extent Generation Z EFL speakers employ English in their linguistic practices on digital media platforms and how these compare to the patterns of English use on other social occasions. To that end, 630 adolescents (aged 14 to 18) from five grammar schools were targeted in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg. Results of a 27‐item survey pinpoint young individuals’ habitual reliance on English…
Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English
Indian English
This contribution treats Indian English, its genesis, its acquisitional contexts, and its major sociolinguistic uses. In so doing, it contextualizes this linguistic variety within the broader context detailing the history of language contact in South Asia. Here, I demonstrate how over the centuries, Indian English has become an essential part of the linguistic landscape of India naturally underpinning and uniting its millennia‐long multilingualis…
Reconstructing American English in a globally available mass media product: Intensifiers in the television series Gilmore Girls
The role played by mass media in the propagation of structured variability is a challenging sociolinguistic issue. Current models propose that the study of possible media effects on (non-)acquired speech patterns must involve comparisons across source speech communities, adopting speech communities and mass media texts. The present study sets out to explore language-specific and sociolinguistic conditioning underlying the use of intensifiers in t…
Linguistics (15 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociolinguistics (7 works) · German (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works)