Book contents
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theoretical Foundations
- Part I Where Is (Social) Meaning?
- Part II The Structure of Social Meaning
- Part III Meaning and Linguistic Change
- 12 Emergence of Social Meaning in Sociolinguistic Change
- 13 Multiethnolect and Dialect in and across Communities
- 14 Changing Language, Changing Character Types
- 15 Social Meaning and the Temporal Dynamics of Sound Changes
- 16 The Role of the Body in Language Change
- 17 Afterword
- Index
- References
17 - Afterword
from Part III - Meaning and Linguistic Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2021
Book contents
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theoretical Foundations
- Part I Where Is (Social) Meaning?
- Part II The Structure of Social Meaning
- Part III Meaning and Linguistic Change
- 12 Emergence of Social Meaning in Sociolinguistic Change
- 13 Multiethnolect and Dialect in and across Communities
- 14 Changing Language, Changing Character Types
- 15 Social Meaning and the Temporal Dynamics of Sound Changes
- 16 The Role of the Body in Language Change
- 17 Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
The proposal advanced in this chapter assumes that linguistic variation is meaningful, and that a non-trivial number of a linguistic variant’s social meanings derive from embodied practice. And crucially, meaning – some of it embodied – can initiate or influence the trajectory of change.
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- Social Meaning and Linguistic VariationTheorizing the Third Wave, pp. 382 - 387Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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