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William Labov (/ ləˈboʊv / lə-BOHV; [ 1 ][ 2 ] born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. [ 3 ][ 4 ] He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics. [ 5 ]
Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language. Variation can exist in domains such as pronunciation (e.g., more than one way of pronouncing the same phoneme or the same word), lexicon (e.g., multiple words with the same meaning), grammar (e.g., different syntactic constructions expressing the same grammatical function), and ...
Interactional sociolinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that uses discourse analysis to study how language users create meaning via social interaction. [1] It is one of the ways in which linguists look at the intersections of human language and human society; other subfields that take this perspective are language planning, minority language studies, quantitative sociolinguistics, and ...
In the field of sociolinguistics, social network describes the structure of a particular speech community. Social networks are composed of a "web of ties" (Lesley Milroy) between individuals, and the structure of a network will vary depending on the types of connections it is composed of. Social network theory (as used by sociolinguists) posits ...
Jenny Cheshire. Jenny L. Cheshire is a British sociolinguist and emeritus professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. [1] Her research interests include language variation and change, language contact and dialect convergence, and language in education, with a focus on conversational narratives and spoken English.
Linguistics. Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society. Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics ...
t. e. The ethnography of communication (EOC), originally called the ethnography of speaking, is the analysis of communication within the wider context of the social and cultural practices and beliefs of the members of a particular culture or speech community. It comes from ethnographic research [1][2] It is a method of discourse analysis in ...
v. t. e. In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings. In this context, social meanings can include group membership, personal attributes, or beliefs. Linguistic variation is at the heart of the concept of linguistic style—without variation, there is no basis for distinguishing social meanings.