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WP45 From endangered to dangerous: Two types of sociolinguistic inequality (with examples from Ireland & the US)
2007
The purpose of this paper is to open up a discussion of the contemporary dynamics of sociolinguistic inequality in a world that is being transformed in and by the intersection of two distinct but related forces: on the one hand by massive and wide …
Key words: inequality, sociolinguistics
WP37 Sociolinguistic scales
2006
Globalization compels disciplines such as sociolinguistics to unthink their theoretical fundamentals. In this paper, the notion of scale is introduced and its potential purchase for sociolinguistic analysis is discussed. Scale is a theoretical notion …
Key words: globalization, indexicality, inequality, norms, power, scale, sociolinguistics