The structural focus of linguistics has led to a static and modular treatment of meaning.
Viewing language as practice allows us to transcend the boundaries of subdisciplines that …

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume
examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life …

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of
current sociolinguistic methodology while recognizing that methodological decisions can …

The transmission of linguistic change within a speech community is characterized by
incrementation within a faithfully reproduced pattern characteristic of the family tree model …

This paper utilizes sociolinguistic theories of social stratification, gravity and cascade models
to analyze the usage of English in the linguistic landscape of Korea. Public signs in different …

While sociolinguists defined the regional sound changes around the linguistic behavior of
White speakers, recent work has shown that racialized speakers employ local sound …

This is a study of the competition of linguistic systems within the speech community, tracing
the opposition of distinct phonological configurations. Among younger Philadelphians …

The research in this dissertation focuses on the documentation and analysis of vowel
variation and sound change in Columbus, OH. Columbus is a Midland speech community …

Recent acoustic analyses examining English in the North American Great Lakes region
show that the area's characteristic vowel chain shift, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), is …

Linguists have problematized the presentation of African American English (AAE) as a
uniform variety (Wolfram 2007; Yaeger-Dror & Thomas 2010). My work advances the …