Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance

By E. Schneider. 1999

Subfields: Linguistics, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Peaks Beyond Phonology: Adolescence, Incrementation, and Language Change (2009, background): “As noted earlier, the discovery of a peak in apparent time marked ‘an idiosyncratic or at least unexpected feature’ (Chambers 2003:223) in the trajectory of change.”
Bilingualism, gender, and ideology (2001, background): “The majority of linguists have also acknowledged that there are no linguistic behaviors, styles, or practices that can be universally associated with a particular gender group (for a dissenting opinion, see Chambers, 1992, 1995; Holmes, 1993b).”
Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006, background): “…1997: 1) the relationship between language and society (Trudgill 2000: 21) the correlation of dependent linguistic variables with independent social variables (Chambers 2003: ix) However, the many different ways that society can impinge on language make the field of reference extremely broad.”
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation (2010, background): “Quantitative research in these fields generally proceeds by counting the frequency of a handful of previously-identified linguistic variables: pairs of phonological, lexical, or morphosyntactic features that are semantically equivalent, but whose frequency depends on social, geographical, or other f”
On learning and representing social meaning in NLP: a sociolinguistic perspective (2021, background): “Sociolinguistics has traditionally focused on the social meaning of phonetic features and to a lesser extent on grammatical and especially lexical features (Chambers, 2003).”