We argue that statistical correlations between speaker categorizations and variable language are best understood with reference to localized ideologies. In this model, purely demographic variables such as class, gender and ethnicity are not theoretical primitives but serve to amplify or mitigate patterns which have their primary locus in geographical space.
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In: Ayres-Bennett, W. Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, Armstrong N, Mackenzie I. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; Copied to clipboard. Copy to clipboard. Share this chapter. Supplementary Materials. Please login or register with De Gruyter to order this product. Register Log in. Chapters in this book 36 Frontmatter.
Manuals of Romance Linguistics. Table of Contents. Romance sociolinguistics: past, present, future. Methodological issues. Annotating oral corpora. Quantitative approaches for modelling variation and change: a case study of sociophonetic data from Occitan. Collecting and analysing creole data. Fieldwork and building corpora for endangered varieties. Romance dialectology: from the nineteenth century to the era of sociolinguistics. Variation and change. Speaker variables and their relation to language change.
Variation and grammaticalization in Romance: a cross-linguistic study of the subjunctive. Historical sociolinguistics and tracking language change: sources, text types and genres.
