In search of patterns of historical language variation and user interaction (or: Who used what linguistic features with whom, when, where, why and how?)

Mark Richard Lauersdorf

doi:10.2478/jazcas-2024-0047

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In search of patterns of historical language variation and user interaction (or: Who used what linguistic features with whom, when, where, why and how?)

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

Volume 75 (2024): Issue 3 (December 2024)

By: Mark Richard Lauersdorf

Open Access

|May 2025

Abstract

This essay presents a set of interconnected thoughts, considerations, and conceptualizations that address what it is that we are talking about when we discuss language variation and the interaction of language users in historical contexts, and how we research patterns of historical language variation and user interaction.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0047 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597

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Language: English

Page range: 330 - 347

Published on: May 23, 2025

Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics

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Keywords:

data-driven,

inductive analysis,

language and identity,

historical language- documentation fieldwork,

historical ethnographic fieldwork,

tasks of historical sociolinguistics

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other

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