Variation and the indexical field 1

By Penelope Eckert. 2008

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"How Old Do You Think I Am?" A Study of Language and Age in Twitter (2013, background): “For example, a person is not only a teenager, but also a female, a high school student, a piano player, etc. (Eckert 2008).”
The nature of sociolinguistic perception (2009, background): “This limitation presents an analytical problem, a solution for which is suggested by Eckert (2008).”
What to do about bad language on the internet (2013, background): “This perspective on social variables and personal identity ignores the local categories that are often more linguistically salient (Eckert, 2008); worse, it strips individuals of any agency in using language as a resource to create and shape their identity (Coupland, 2007), and conceals the role…”
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach (2013, background): “found as language is often dependent on context [40].”
Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality (2014, unknown): “…supports a conceptualisation of so-called variable ‘ under-speci ﬁ cation ’ , whereby linguistic forms are associated with a variety of potential meanings in a uni ﬁ ed indexical ﬁ eld and where the activation of a given meaning is determined by the social contours of an interaction (Eckert 2008).”
It’s going to be okay: Measuring Access to Support in Online Communities (2018, unknown): “pects of their gender identity (Eckert, 2008).”
How to get a grip on identities-in-interaction. (What) Does "Positioning" offer more than "Membership Categorization"? Evidence from a mock story (2013, background): “…S/he needs to turn to and incorporate the ethnographic knowledge the participants themselves dispose of into the analysis in order to grasp indexical socio-stylistic functions (cf. Eckert, 2008) attributed to ways of speaking (in terms of vocal performance, lexical choice and discourse strategies).”
Why Gender and Age Prediction from Tweets is Hard: Lessons from a Crowdsourcing Experiment (2014, background): “(Eckert, 2008).”
On learning and representing social meaning in NLP: a sociolinguistic perspective (2021, background): “The collection of social meanings a linguistic feature could potentially evoke is referred to as the indexical ﬁeld of that feature (Eckert (2008), for a theoretical discussion of indexicality, see Sil-verstein (2003)).”
The Implicit Association Test and sociolinguistic meaning (2012, methodology): “Less studied than either of the other two, it has been associated in the literaturewith education and articulate speech in a handful of diverse contexts (Eckert, 2008).”
Gender in Twitter: Styles, stances, and social networks (2012, background): “Eckert (2008) and others have argued that the social meaning of linguistic variables depends critically on the social and linguistic context in which they are deployed.”
Gender identity and lexical variation in social media (2012, background): “roup of “burned-out burnout” girls. The complex role of gender in larger configurations of personal identity poses problems for quantitative analyses that aggregate individuals based on gender alone. Eckert 2008 and others have argued that the social meaning of linguistic variables depends criticall”
Editorial: Positioning in narrative interaction (2013, background): “Methodologically, the question is: How we can get access to larger structures of discourse which are needed in order to understand indexicalities (cf. Eckert, 2008) and motivations of local acts of positioning which are not manifestly displayed in these acts themselves?”