36.1275, Books: Dimensions of Linguistic Variation: Cieri, Hall-Lew, Drager, and Yaeger-Dror (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Dimensions of Linguistic Variation: Cieri, Hall-Lew, Drager, and Yaeger-Dror (eds.) (2025)


Title: Dimensions of Linguistic Variation
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dimensions-of-linguistic-variation-9780197533499?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): Christopher Cieri, Lauren Hall-Lew, Katie Drager, and
Malcah Yaeger-Dror

Hardcover (9780197533499)
Paperback (9780197533505)

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax




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