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Language Variation and Change: Unlocking the Power of R and Python

Language Variation and Change: Unlocking the Power of R and Python

Shao, Bin
Cai, Yingying

Hardcover

Series: China Perspectives

LinguisticsProgramming

ISBN10: 1041384157
ISBN13: 9781041384151
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 7 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.68
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Addressing the central role of variation in human language, this book examines how it operates across multiple structural levels, integrating empirical case studies of change in the lexicon, word classes, constructions, style, and sociolinguistic dimensions.

Drawing on large-scale corpus data, the volume analyses competition among word forms, shifts in grammatical categories, changes in constructions, stylistic differentiation, and language use in relation to gender and social values. It shows how linguistic choices emerge from interacting structural, semantic, and social factors, producing patterns of variation. Using quantitative and computational methods implemented in R and Python, the studies demonstrate how empirical evidence illuminates language use and its role in shaping linguistic systems. Together, these analyses argue that variation is fundamental to linguistic organization.

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