| SOCIOLINGUISTICS
 The sociolinguistics group at USC includes undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members interested in analyzing language variation across social groups and in particular across social situations.
Prof. Carmen Sílva-Corvalán studies variation principally in Spanish, Prof. Ed Finegan principally in English, and Prof. Elaine Andersen principally in French and English. Doctoral dissertations in recent years have examined Basque, English, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, and Spanish, among others. Besides formal classes and seminars, the group has monthly International/Interdisciplinary Discourse Analysis Seminars at which students, faculty, and visitors present ongoing research.
Among the interests strongly represented in this group are bilingualism and languages in contact; discourse analysis; and register variation (across modes, settings, and purposes). Members of the group have been active in research tracing the acquisition of register skills in children, in examining the acquisition of two languages from birth, in theorizing about the relationship between register variation and social dialect variation, and in analyzing professional discourse.
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