Dimensions of linguistic variation / editors, Christophr Cieri, Lauren Hall-Lew, Katie Drager, Malcah Yaeger-Dror.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cieri, Christopher, editor.

Hall-Lew, Lauren, editor.

Drager, Katie, editor.

Yaeger-Dror, Malcah, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Research--Methodology.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This text investigates evidence for the myriad factors which influence language variation and change, and consider how to best account for these factors in data collection and metadata coding.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Contributors

1 Introduction to the Volume

2 Section 1 Introduction: Research Planning and Interactions with Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues

3 IRBs, Researchers, and Social Media as (Socio)linguistic Field Sites

4 Conducting Linguistic Fieldwork with IRB Approval: A Suggested Approach

5 Section 2 Introduction: Introduction to Demographics and Attitudes

6 Sociolinguistics of Multicultural Societies: Implications for Data and Methodology

7 Bilingual Coding

8 Snapshots in Time: Coding Social Factors in Changing Communities

9 Dialect Contact

10 Studying Ethnicity and Its Sociolinguistic Fluidities: Variationist Perspectives from English in South Africa

11 Reorienting Blackness and Whiteness in Studies of Sociolinguistic Variation

12 Diversity and Dialect Contact in North American Latinx Communities

13 Conceptualizing and Coding Social Class in Linguistic Corpora

14 Social Class, Social Capital, Social Practice, and Language in British Sociolinguistics: Unravelling Historical and Ethnographic Complexities

15 What Can Macrosocial Categories Tell Us about Gender and Sexuality?

16 Understanding Age

17 Religion and Religiosity

18 Linguistic Variation and Political Identity

19 Language Attitudes and Language Change

20 Measuring Attitudes

21 Levels of Linguistic Accommodation

22 Section 3 Introduction: Introduction to Social Situation

23 What Kind of Data Is It? Situating Sociolinguistic Corpora in Context

24 Best Practice for the Study of Language Change in Real Time

25 Coding Categories Relevant to Interaction

26 Approaching Variation in Political Discourse

27 Self-Recordings and Oral Histories

28 Social Media as a Sociolinguistic Resource.

29 Singing as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation: Considerations for a Corpus of Song

30 Discussion: Balancing Representativity and Metadata in Sociolinguistic Corpora

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 30, 2025).

ISBN:

9780197533536

0197533531

9780197533512

0197533515

OCLC:

1474014763