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    Dimensions of Linguistic Variation by Cieri, Christopher; Hall-Lew, Lauren; Drager, Katie;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 30 July 2025

    • ISBN 9780197533499
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages568 pages
    • Size 235x156 mm
    • Weight 3 g
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    The chapters in this book all demonstrate that, while corpora from different communities can vary in different ways, those differences must and can be integrated into data coding and metadata coding in ways that permit the linguistic patterns of various communities to be compared.

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    Long description:

    In Dimensions of Linguistic Variation, the contributors investigate evidence for the myriad factors which influence language variation and change, and consider how to best account for these factors in data and metadata coding. Given linguists' increasing ability to preserve and share data, questions arise around the possibility of comparing data from different communities: how should a corpus builder model, elicit, encode, analyze, and archive data that have been collected from highly diverse groups of speakers, from situations beyond the sociolinguistic interview, in a way that supports re-use, comparison across collections, and longer-term archiving?

    Answering these questions requires a highly nuanced understanding of the social influences on speech variation. Social differences between communities and contexts can permit or encourage comparisons, in some cases, and render comparisons impossible, in others. The current volume builds on a rich foundation of insight from the sociolinguistics community as to how community-specific social distinctions shape variation and change within a given community and presents new, state-of-the-art insights from a diverse range of community and context types.

    The editors have compiled a volume which will enable researchers both to expand the established set of variables expected to be considered in any community study, and to categorize data and results in ways that best permit cross-community comparisons. They present the issues involved in research planning, the modeling of the target community, subject selection, the elicitation and coding of demographic, situational and attitudinal factors, and how they all affect analysis and potential reuse.

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    Table of Contents:

    1 Introduction to the Volume
    Christopher Cieri, Lauren Hall-Lew, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, and Katie Drager
    2 Section 1 Introduction: Research Planning and Interactions with Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues
    Christopher Cieri
    3 IRBs, Researchers, and Social Media as (Socio)linguistic Field Sites
    Alexandra D'Arcy
    4 Conducting Linguistic Fieldwork with IRB Approval: A Suggested Approach
    Denise DiPersio
    5 Section 2 Introduction: Introduction to Demographics and Attitudes
    Lauren Hall-Lew and Christopher Cieri
    6 Sociolinguistics of Multicultural Societies: Implications for Data and Methodology
    Shobha Satyanath
    7 Bilingual Coding
    Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
    8 Snapshots in Time: Coding Social Factors in Changing Communities
    Devyani Sharma, Nathan Young
    9 Dialect Contact
    Yoshiyuki Asahi
    10 Studying Ethnicity and Its Sociolinguistic Fluidities: Variationist Perspectives from English in South Africa
    Rajend Mesthrie
    11 Reorienting Blackness and Whiteness in Studies of Sociolinguistic Variation
    Sonya Fix, Renée Blake, Cecelia Cutler, Nicole Holliday
    12 Diversity and Dialect Contact in North American Latinx Communities
    Robert Bayley
    13 Conceptualizing and Coding Social Class in Linguistic Corpora
    Joshua Hummel, Jordan Holley, Robin Dodsworth, Suzanne Evans Wagner
    14 Social Class, Social Capital, Social Practice, and Language in British Sociolinguistics: Unravelling
    Historical and Ethnographic Complexities
    Anne Fabricius
    15 What Can Macrosocial Categories Tell Us about Gender and Sexuality?
    Penelope Eckert
    16 Understanding Age
    David Bowie
    17 Religion and Religiosity
    David Bowie and Malcah Yaeger-Dror
    18 Linguistic Variation and Political Identity
    Lauren Hall-Lew, Sarah van Eyndhoven
    19 Language Attitudes and Language Change
    Nicolai Pharao
    20 Measuring Attitudes
    Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt
    21 Levels of Linguistic Accommodation
    Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas
    22 Section 3 Introduction: Introduction to Social Situation
    Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror
    23 What Kind of Data Is It? Situating Sociolinguistic Corpora in Context
    Sali A. Tagliamonte
    24 Best Practice for the Study of Language Change in Real Time
    Frans Gregersen, Gert Foget Hansen
    25 Coding Categories Relevant to Interaction
    Richard Ogden, Marina N. Cantarutti
    26 Approaching Variation in Political Discourse
    Jennifer Sclafani
    27 Self-Recordings and Oral Histories
    Sonia Barnes and Lauren Hall-Lew
    28 Social Media as a Sociolinguistic Resource
    Jacob Eisenstein
    29 Singing as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation: Considerations for a Corpus of Song
    Andy Gibson
    30 Discussion: Balancing Representativity and Metadata in Sociolinguistic Corpora
    Tyler Kendall
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