Suzanne Evans Wagner and myself are the newly minted editors for Routledge studies in language change.This series
This series aims to provide a venue for quantitative research investigating the social underpinnings of
contemporary language change. Our proposed series gives a platform to research on language change that is firmly rooted in the speech community yet abstracts to a level of generalisation, resulting in theoretical insights that advance our understanding of change as it percolates through the community and within the individual.
This is in contrast to:
(i) titles in which the quantitative analysis is conducted without detailed community context;
(ii) titles in which the community is described ethnographically but there is little or no generalization above the immediate community context;
(iii) and titles in which there is both community description and quantitative analysis, but a focus on variation more than on change.aims to provide a venue for quantitative research investigating the social underpinnings of contemporary language change.
The series showcases quantitative research on language change from a wealth of communities that relies on a multitude of epistemiological frameworks including but not restricted to social identity theory, network theory, models of language change, child language acquisition, multilingualism, language contact, language diffusion and language death.
The scope of the series would cover both classic research monographs as well as collections of papers that are integrated around a coherent central theme and edited by expert editors. These edited volumes provide a platform for theoretical discussions centering around one specific theme where experts pick up on issues raised in the individual volumes, take stock of the insights gleaned thus far and suggest avenues forward. The distinctive selling point of our series is therefore the establishment of a coherent series of titles that address key issues in focal areas of sociolinguistic research in the area of language change.
This series aims to provide a venue for quantitative research investigating the social underpinnings of
contemporary language change. Our proposed series gives a platform to research on language change that is firmly rooted in the speech community yet abstracts to a level of generalisation, resulting in theoretical insights that advance our understanding of change as it percolates through the community and within the individual.
This is in contrast to:
(i) titles in which the quantitative analysis is conducted without detailed community context;
(ii) titles in which the community is described ethnographically but there is little or no generalization above the immediate community context;
(iii) and titles in which there is both community description and quantitative analysis, but a focus on variation more than on change.aims to provide a venue for quantitative research investigating the social underpinnings of contemporary language change.
The series showcases quantitative research on language change from a wealth of communities that relies on a multitude of epistemiological frameworks including but not restricted to social identity theory, network theory, models of language change, child language acquisition, multilingualism, language contact, language diffusion and language death.
The scope of the series would cover both classic research monographs as well as collections of papers that are integrated around a coherent central theme and edited by expert editors. These edited volumes provide a platform for theoretical discussions centering around one specific theme where experts pick up on issues raised in the individual volumes, take stock of the insights gleaned thus far and suggest avenues forward. The distinctive selling point of our series is therefore the establishment of a coherent series of titles that address key issues in focal areas of sociolinguistic research in the area of language change.