The Coherence of Linguistic Communities
Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2022
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-367-68182-1 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative collection brings together a range of perspectives on the notions of "orderly heterogeneity" and "social meaning", shedding light on how structured variation and indexicalities of social meaning "cohere" within linguistic communities. This book fills a gap in research on language variation by critically considering the position articulated by Weinrich, Labov, and Herzog in 1968 that linguistic diversity is systematically organized in ways that reflect and construct social order.
The volume investigates such key themes as
covariation and co-occurrence restrictions;
indexicality, perception and social meaning;
coherence and language change;
and the structure and measurement of coherence at different levels of analysis.
This collection advances our understanding of the coherence of linguistic communities through empirical investigations of larger and more diverse sets of variables, language varieties, speech styles, and communities, as afforded by the development and advancement of new methods and models in sociolinguistic research.
This book is of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, language variation and change, and formal linguistics, as well as those interested in developments on research methods in linguistics.
The volume investigates such key themes as
covariation and co-occurrence restrictions;
indexicality, perception and social meaning;
coherence and language change;
and the structure and measurement of coherence at different levels of analysis.
This collection advances our understanding of the coherence of linguistic communities through empirical investigations of larger and more diverse sets of variables, language varieties, speech styles, and communities, as afforded by the development and advancement of new methods and models in sociolinguistic research.
This book is of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, language variation and change, and formal linguistics, as well as those interested in developments on research methods in linguistics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
55 s/w Abbildungen, 33 s/w Tabellen, 55 s/w Zeichnungen
33 Tables, black and white; 55 Line drawings, black and white; 55 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-68182-1 (9780367681821)
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Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning
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Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning
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The Coherence of Linguistic Communities
Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning
E-Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€55.49
Available for download
Persons
Karen V. Beaman is a Lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany. Her research interests concern language variation, coherence and change, with particular focus on how factors of identity, mobility, and social networks drive or inhibit change.
Gregory R. Guy is Professor at New York University, USA. His research focuses on social, geographic, and diachronic diversity in language, and the implications of linguistic variation for the construction of linguistic theory in varieties of English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Gregory R. Guy is Professor at New York University, USA. His research focuses on social, geographic, and diachronic diversity in language, and the implications of linguistic variation for the construction of linguistic theory in varieties of English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Content
The coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning
Karen V. Beaman and Gregory R. Guy
PART I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF COHERENCE
1. False oppositions in the study of coherence
Devyani Sharma
2. Coherence across social and temporal scales
Meredith Tamminga and Lacey Wade
3. Indexicality and coherence
Gregory R. Guy, Livia Oushiro, and Ronald Beline Mendes
PART II. METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF COHERENCE
4. What's in a Lect? Coherence in Phonetic and Grammatical Variation
James A. Walker, Michol F. Hoffman, and Miriam Meyerhoff
5. Measuring change in lectal coherence across real- and apparent-time
Karen V. Beaman and Konstantin Sering
6. Looking for covariation in heritage Italian in Toronto
Naomi Nagy and Timothy Gadanidis
7. Measuring distance-based coherence
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
PART III: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF COHERENCE
8. How social salience can illuminate the outcomes of linguistic contact: Data from Spanish in Boston
Danny Erker
9. Mapping social and sociophonetic changes: Gender in Auckland English
Evan Hazenberg
10. Coherence and implicational hierarchies in the speech of the very old
Aria Adli
PART IV: PERCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF COHERENCE
11. Not anything goes: On implicational coherence and the penalty for being incoherent
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen and Stefan Grondelaers
12. Coherent patterns in nonstandard inflection in modern colloquial Standard Dutch?
Hans Bennis and Frans Hinskens
13. Coherence in a levelled variety: The case of Andalusian
Juan-Andres Villena-Ponsoda, Matilde Vida-Castro, and Alvaro Molina-Garcia
PART V. EFFECTS OF STANDARD LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES ON COHERENCE
14. Identifying language varieties: Coexisting standards in spoken Italian
Massimo Cerruti and Alessandro Vietti
15. Language change in real-time: 40 years of lectal coherence in the Central Bavarian dialect-standard constellation of Austria
Philip C. Vergeiner, Dominik Wallner, and Lars Buelow
16. Coherence and language contact: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning in Namibian German
Heike Wiese, Antje Sauermann, and Yannic Bracke
INDEX
Karen V. Beaman and Gregory R. Guy
PART I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF COHERENCE
1. False oppositions in the study of coherence
Devyani Sharma
2. Coherence across social and temporal scales
Meredith Tamminga and Lacey Wade
3. Indexicality and coherence
Gregory R. Guy, Livia Oushiro, and Ronald Beline Mendes
PART II. METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF COHERENCE
4. What's in a Lect? Coherence in Phonetic and Grammatical Variation
James A. Walker, Michol F. Hoffman, and Miriam Meyerhoff
5. Measuring change in lectal coherence across real- and apparent-time
Karen V. Beaman and Konstantin Sering
6. Looking for covariation in heritage Italian in Toronto
Naomi Nagy and Timothy Gadanidis
7. Measuring distance-based coherence
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
PART III: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF COHERENCE
8. How social salience can illuminate the outcomes of linguistic contact: Data from Spanish in Boston
Danny Erker
9. Mapping social and sociophonetic changes: Gender in Auckland English
Evan Hazenberg
10. Coherence and implicational hierarchies in the speech of the very old
Aria Adli
PART IV: PERCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF COHERENCE
11. Not anything goes: On implicational coherence and the penalty for being incoherent
Anne-Sophie Ghyselen and Stefan Grondelaers
12. Coherent patterns in nonstandard inflection in modern colloquial Standard Dutch?
Hans Bennis and Frans Hinskens
13. Coherence in a levelled variety: The case of Andalusian
Juan-Andres Villena-Ponsoda, Matilde Vida-Castro, and Alvaro Molina-Garcia
PART V. EFFECTS OF STANDARD LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES ON COHERENCE
14. Identifying language varieties: Coexisting standards in spoken Italian
Massimo Cerruti and Alessandro Vietti
15. Language change in real-time: 40 years of lectal coherence in the Central Bavarian dialect-standard constellation of Austria
Philip C. Vergeiner, Dominik Wallner, and Lars Buelow
16. Coherence and language contact: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning in Namibian German
Heike Wiese, Antje Sauermann, and Yannic Bracke
INDEX