Parameter setting within a socially realistic linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2876642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John F Wilson (0000-0001-7728-2892, University of Ulster), John Wilson (0000-0001-8488-3020), Alison Henry (University of Ulster) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404500019709 |
| OpenAlex | W1999305816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article considers the theoretical and practical relationship between core linguistics and sociolinguistics in relation to the emergence of Principles and Parameters Theory. Parameters were introduced into core Chomskyan linguistics in an effort to account for variation between languages. However, as we argue - and as has long been known in sociolinguistics - languages (French, Italian etc.) are social rather than abstract products. In this sense, core linguistics may need to pay more attention than it has in the past to aspects of actual variation in order to understand the limits and range of parameters. Thus we argue that dialects of languages in themselves have parameters, and as such may be defined within parametric limits. Here we believe there is something of interest to sociolinguists, in terms both of structural definitions and of overall historical development. In general, then, while variation has always been central to sociolinguistics, it is now central, in one sense, to core linguistics; and here we have the opportunity to explore ways in which sociolinguistics and core linguistics may relate to each other in their interest in variation. (Parameters; variation; dialect; Belfast; Ireland
Applied linguistics · Astrophysics · Linguistics · Physics · Quantitative linguistics · Sociocultural linguistics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Theoretical linguistics · Variation (astronomy · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |