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Publication details [#54945]

Compernolle, Rémi A. van. 2011. Developing a sociocultural orientation to variation in language. Language & Communication 31 (1) : 86–94.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | language variation | social anthropology | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study sets out to elaborate a sociocultural orientation to language variation, and presents four concepts, drawing on Eckert’s recent reconceptualization of variationist sociolinguistic theory as an undertaking favoring social meaning and communicative activity over language structure.