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Styles, standards and meaning
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Abstract:
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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Definite Change Taking Place: Determiner Realization in Multiethnic Communities in New Zealand
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In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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“All the people who live in Auckland”: A study of subject and non-subject relative clauses in Auckland English
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The acquisition of variation: Arab migrants' acquisition of (ING) and Coronal Stop Deletion in Wellington
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An Acoustic Analysis of New Zealand English Vowels in Auckland
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Representing trans: linguistic, legal and everyday perspectives
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Towards a model of informed consent: trans healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Representing trans: linguistic, legal and everyday perspectives
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Liminality as a lens on social meaning: A cross-variable analysis of gender in New Zealand English
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Address terms in New Zealand English: Tracking changes to the social indexicality of gendered terms of address
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Sociolinguistics and immigration: linguistic variation among adolescents in London and Edinburgh ...
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