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The field of sociolinguistic variation has not so far developed a coherent theory of the social meaning of variables. This is because it has also not developed a coherent theory of style. The neglect of both is an outgrowth of the roots of the study of variation in the study of dialects and linguistic change. Variables have been selected for
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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 speakers’ choices among variants, and (ii) something reflexively produced through the association of variants and the social position of the users of those variants. In the context of the languages considered here, we ask “What questions do we have about variation in this language and what notion(s) of style will answer them?” We highlight methodological, conceptual and analytical challenges for the notion of style as it is usually operationalised in variationist sociolinguistics. We demonstrate that style is a useful research heuristic which – when marshalled alongside locally-oriented accounts of, or proxies for “standard” and “prestige”, in apparent time – allows us to describe language and exp...
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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation.:Style and Sociolinguistic Variation2004 •
Style as a pivotal construction in sociolinguistics has attracted the attention of influential sociolinguists (Labov 2006; Bell 2001). Coupland (2001) and Eckert (2001) argue that speakers create their styles, in order to gain a position in the social hierarchy. Nevertheless, they do not account for how someone’s style puts them into a place in the social hierarchy. This paper argues that social meaning is identified with the idea of “power” (Hutchby 1996:495; Wooffitt 2005:199). People, who sound persuasive, are placed higher in the social hierarchy than people, who do not sound convincing, because the former have automatically the privilege of using their power towards their interlocutors to manipulate them or to prove them that their (the speakers’) ideas are valid. Therefore, the “style as persuasion” approach is proposed, which allows to analyze style in terms of its convincing capacity and thus to be able to correlate it with social meaning.
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