The potential of sociolinguistic impact: Lessons from the first 50 years.
Along with its focus on foundational research, one of the enduring concerns of variationist sociolinguistics over the past half‐century has been a tradition of application and engagement. As research paradigms have developed in variation studies, so have traditions of engagement with issues of socia...
| Publicado en: | Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16 |
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