In pursuit of social meaning

Bibliographic Data

ID3624686
AuthorsMiriam Meyerhoff (0000-0002-2599-1870, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume23
Issue3
Pages303-315
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josl.12341
OpenAlexW2927193589
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Meaning and Linguistic Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics is a collection of works published in a variety of edited collections, journals, and conference proceedings. It also includes one unpublished conference paper. The collection traces the (ongoing) development of the concept of social meaning in language variation in 11 different papers. These are contextualized with personal reflections on variationist sociolinguistics and the profession of linguistics that frame each paper. This review article highlights some of the key themes in the collection: As well as social meaning itself, issues with style, clustering of variables, peripheral and core members of communities, and agency are discussed. Eckert's innovative proposal that variables can be differentiated on the basis of their relative "interiority" is considered, as is the assertion that linguistics transcends the referential properties of language to include the expressive and moral

Agency (philosophy · Assertion · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Variation (astronomy · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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