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Styles, standards and meaning
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Abstract Style, in the study of variation and change, is intimately linked with broader questions about linguistic innovation and change, standards, social norms, and individual speakers’ stances. This article examines style when applied to lesser-studied languages. Style is both (i) the product of speakers’ choices among variants, and (ii) something reflexively produced through the association of variants and the social position of the users of those variants. In the context of the languages considered here, we ask “What questions do we have about variation in this language and what notion(s) of style will answer them?” We highlight methodological, conceptual and analytical challenges for the notion of style as it is usually operationalised in variationist sociolinguistics. We demonstrate that style is a useful research heuristic which – when marshalled alongside locally-oriented accounts of, or proxies for “standard” and “prestige”, in apparent time – allows us to describe language and explore change. It is also a means for exploring social meaning, which speakers may have more or less conscious control over.
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indicators; language standards; markers; minority languages; sociolinguistic theory; stereotypes; style variation; superposed variety
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URL: https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/download/ba4296d66b504c177abf4d377d943153c10891a602c60062270ecc7059a1aa4e/97550/LE-1-Meyerhoff-et-al-Manuscript.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1075/le.00006.mey
https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/v4483/styles-standards-and-meaning
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Beyond obsolescence: a twenty-first century research agenda for the langues régionales
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Heritage-language speakers: Theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige
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In: International Journal of Bilingualism, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 387-394 (2018)
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Heritage-language speakers: Theoretical and empirical challenges on sociolinguistic attitudes and prestige. Special Issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. Volume 22, Issue 4.
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