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14 - Changing Language, Changing Character Types

from Part III - Meaning and Linguistic Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Rebecca Lurie Starr
Edited by
Lauren Hall-Lew ,
Emma Moore  and
Robert J. Podesva
Lauren Hall-Lew
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Emma Moore
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Robert J. Podesva
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

Relative to the first- and second-wave traditions of variationist sociolinguistics, language change has not been a central concern of work in the third wave. Indeed, most research in the third wave has not mentioned language change at all, focusing instead on social meaning and on language’s role in the construction and performance of identities, styles, and stances. Nonetheless, research in this tradition that has addressed language change (e.g., Hall-Lew et al., this volume; Zhang, this volume) makes evident that the approach has a great deal to contribute, particularly in accounting for the social motivations underpinning change.

Keywords

language variation and changesociophoneticssound changecharacter typecharacterological figureworld Englishespostcolonial EnglishesSingaporeSoutheast Asia
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Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
Theorizing the Third Wave
 , pp. 315 - 337
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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