Contextualising Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics

Abstract

situation which brought it into existence". Style had previously been defined and understood in a limited sense within the framework of first-and second-wave approaches to sociolinguistic variation and viewed as an ordinary characteristic alongside social aspects. This has brought about the distinction between inter-speaker (social) and intra-speaker (stylistic) variation (see Figure 2): "[t]he social dimension denotes differences between the