36.2205, Books: Dynamics of L2 Sociolinguistic Development in Adulthood: Wirtz (2025)

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Date: 15-Jul-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Dynamics of L2 Sociolinguistic Development in Adulthood: Wirtz (2025)


Title: Dynamics of L2 Sociolinguistic Development in Adulthood
Series Title: Second Language Acquisition
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781836680055

Author(s): Mason A. Wirtz

Hbk ISBN 9781836680055 £99.95 / US$129.95 / €119.95
EPUB ISBN 9781836680062 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00
PDF ISBN 9781836680079 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00

Abstract:

This book constitutes a holistic study of sociolinguistic development
among adult second language (L2) learners in a naturalistic setting.
Combining results from a cross-sectional and longitudinal
micro-development study, it examines the acquisition of both the
productive and interpretive skills necessary to engage with the
contextually sensitive use of vernacularity in Austria. The studies
focus on issues of inter- and intra-individual variation and aim to
shed much-needed light on why L2 learners acquire sociolinguistic
variation, which aspects of it they acquire, which factors influence
it and when they acquire it. Drawing on methodological and theoretical
frameworks from diverse fields such as developmental and cognitive
psychology, psycho- and sociolinguistics, as well as second language
acquisition, the book connects topics rarely found in the same
empirical piece, including the role of cognitive functioning and
socioaffective factors, the temporal specificity of L2 sociolinguistic
development in production and perception, and the issue of
group-to-individual generalizability. The studies showcased in this
work provide ample evidence that late starters of a L2 in early
adulthood and midlife can acquire the skills necessary to successfully
navigate the complex sociolinguistic variation within the
target-language community, but the process is certainly not one
without hurdles.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics




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