Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologiesEdited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1] 2023
► pp. 106–111
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1] 2023
► pp. 106–111
Commentary
Variationist sociolinguistic methods with Indigenous language communities
Article outline
- Introduction
- Variation in language documentation and description: Focus or footnote?
- Conclusion
-
References
References (24)
Chirkova, K., Stanford, J. & Wang, D. H.
(2018) A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China). Language Variation and Change,
30
(1), 109–145. 
Clarke, S.
(2009) Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: Not so different after all? In J. N. Stanford & D. R. Preston (Eds.), pp. 109–128.
Grenoble, L., & Whaley, L.
(1996) Endangered languages: Current issues and future prospects. International Journal of the Sociology of Language,
118
1, pp. 209–223.
(1998) Endangered languages: Language loss and community response. Cambridge University Press.
(2006) Saving languages. Cambridge University Press.
Krauss, M.
(1992) The world’s languages in crisis. Language,
68
(4), pp. 4–10.
Labov, W.
(1966) The social stratification of English in New York City. Center for Applied Linguistics.
(1972) Sociolinguistic patterns. University of Pennsylvania Press.
(2001) Principles of linguistic change, Vol 2: Social factors. Blackwell
(2016) Afterward: Where are we now? Journal of Sociolinguistics
20
(4), pp. 581–602.
Leonard, W. Y.
(2021) Centering Indigenous ways of knowing in collaborative language work. In L. Crowshoe et al. (Eds), Sustaining Indigenous languages: Connecting communities, teachers, and scholars (pp. 21–34). Northern Arizona University.
Meyerhoff, M.
(2017) Writing a linguistic symphony: Analyzing variation while doing language documentation. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
62
1, 1–25.
Nagy, N.
(2009) The challenges of less commonly studied languages: Writing a sociogrammar of Faetar. In J. N. Stanford & D. R. Preston (Eds), pp. 197–218.
Nagy, N., Iannozzi, M. & Heap, D.
(2018) Faetar null subjects: A variationist study of a heritage language in contact. International Journal of the Sociology of Language,
249
1, pp. 31–47.
Nodari, R., Celata, C. & Nagy, N.
(2019) Socio-indexical phonetic features in the heritage language context: VOT in the Calabrian community in Toronto. Journal of Phonetics 731:91–112.
Noglo, K.
Poplack, S., & Levey, S.
(2010) Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale. In P. Auer & J. E. Schmidt (Eds.), Language and space: An international handbook of linguistic variation, vol. 1. theories and methods (pp. 391–419). De Gruyter.
Smakman, D., & Heinrich, P.
(Eds.) (2015) Globalising sociolinguistics. Routledge Press.
Stanford, J. N., Wei, S. Q. & Lu, L.
(2018) Ecologies of Sui sociolinguistics: A language permeated with rural social structures. In C. Mallinson & E. Seale (Eds), Rural voices: Language, identity, and social change across place (pp. 91–103), Lexington Press.
Stanford, J. N.
(2009) “Eating the food of our place”: Sociolinguistic loyalties in multidialectal Sui villages. Language in Society
38
(3), pp. 287–309.
(2016) A call for more diverse sources of data: Variationist approaches in non-English contexts. Journal of Sociolinguistics,
20
(4), pp. 525–541.
Stanford, J. N. & Preston, D. R.
Umbal, P., & Nagy, N.
(2021) Heritage Tagalog phonology and a variationist framework of language contact. Languages,
6
(4), pp. 201–227.
Weinreich, U., Labov, W. & Herzog, M.
(1968) Empirical foundations for a theory of language change. In Winfred Lehmann & Yakov Malkiel (Eds.), Directions for historical linguistics: A symposium (pp. 97–195), University of Texas Press.