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Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research

Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research

Buchstaller, Isabelle
Beaman, Karen V.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Language Change

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1032413085
ISBN13: 9781032413082
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 31 2025
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection engages with key questions in panel study research by exploring more deeply the interrelationship between the individual and the community and the impact on language change across the lifespan.

The book is organized around four broad themes, each followed by a forward-looking commentary that ties together the key findings from the individual chapters. The first section examines style and socio-indexicality with the goal of disentangling short-term style-shifting from long-term language change. The second section continues with a focus on style, examining audience design and socially meaningful variation in professional settings as an integral component of age- and role-appropriate behavior. The third section considers different language/dialect contact scenarios and the impact on changing social identities and behavioural norms, which can fluctuate across the lifespan for different settings and life-stages and for different types of variables. The final section explores a computational, agent-based model of lifespan and community change, targeting the practical challenges often encountered in panel research, such as data sparsity and the short duration of the human lifespan. A postscript underscores the importance of considering style and setting as integral aspects of panel research rather than as afterthoughts and of leveraging computational modeling to expand our understanding of the interdependencies between lifespan and community change.

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