Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High

By K. Woolard. 2001

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

"How Old Do You Think I Am?" A Study of Language and Age in Twitter (2013, background): “Men’s vocabulary, on the contrary, is more homogenous across the in-groups (Eckert 2000).”
The nature of sociolinguistic perception (2009, background): “Recent work (Eckert, 2000; Zhang, 2005) has made it clear that language variation is an integral part of a matrix of social practices through which speakers make a social world and move within it.”
Language as a Complex Adaptive System (2000, background): “The social structure of language use and interaction has a crucial effect in the process of language change (Milroy, 1980) and language variation (Eckert, 2000), and the social structure of early humans must also have played important roles in language origin and evolution.”
Dialect, interaction and class positioning at school: from deficit to difference to repertoire (2013, background): “The clustering of semiotic resources described above is what many sociolinguists working within the ‘third wave’ of variation studies refer to as ‘style’ (see Eckert (2012) for a review; but also Auer (2007), Coupland (2007), Eckert (2000) and Moore (2012)).”
I'll be the judge of that: Diversity in social perceptions of (ING) (2008, background): “…perception, social meaning, agency)* I N T R O D U C T I O N The view that speakers agentively use linguistic variation to construct their own identities as well as larger social structures has become increasingly important in the study of sociolinguistic variation (e.g., Eckert 2000, Zhang 2005).”
The Centrality of Language in Human Cognition (2016, background): “The relationship between language and thought has long been a topic of philosophical inquiry (see Leavitt, 2011, for review), and a number of psychologists and linguistic anthropologists have taken interest in the relationship between language and the rest of cognition (Boroditsky, 2010; Bowerman & ”
Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media (2012, background): “While our research does not distinguish the language choices of speakers within a given area, gender and local social networks can have a profound effect on the adoption of sound changes associated with a nearby city [16].”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, background): “The social structure of language use and interaction has a crucial effect in the process of language change (Milroy, 1980) and language variation (Eckert, 2000), and the social structure of early humans must also have played important roles in language origin and evolution.”