What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates
Edited by Jonathan R. Kasstan
Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8:2 (2022) v, 135 pp.
Jonathan R. Kasstan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jonathan R. Kasstan plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages
Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff
Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2022 Introduction: What’s so standard about standards? What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates, Kasstan, Jonathan R. (ed.), pp. 139–149 | Introduction
2020 Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Article
The centrality of style is uncontested in sociolinguistics: it is an essential construct in the study of linguistic variation and change in the speech community. This is not the case in the language-obsolescence literature, where stylistic variation among endangered-language speakers is… read more
2020 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
Style, in the study of variation and change, is intimately linked with broader questions about linguistic innovation and change, standards, social norms, and individual speakers’ stances. This article examines style when applied to lesser-studied languages. Style is both (i) the product of… read more