Dimensions of a theory of econolinguistics

Baugh, John

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“…Baugh's () study is most comparable to ours in focusing on the transition between teenage and adult usage, and attributing the linguistic change at the individual level to age‐grading. He compared the vernacular use of four African American males, Russell, Leon, Jojo and Carlos, whom he had originally interviewed as teenagers in the LA area in 1976, with their usage when re‐recorded as adults in 1987.…”

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 69%

“…By contrast, panel studies (e.g. Baugh ; Cukor‐Avila ; Hernández‐Campoy ; Sankoff and Blondeau ) specifically return to the same individuals at later points in time.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Apart from our work in East Palo Alto, we know of only three other longitudinal studies of African American English, and they are all panel studies: Cukor‐Avila's (, and with Bailey, 2007) research on changes in Springville, Texas; Baugh's () follow up of four speakers from Pacoima, Los Angeles, eleven years later; and Van Hofwegen and Wolfram's () study of fluctuations in the vernacular usage of 32 children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from preschool to grade 10. …”

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The overall conclusion he reaches, in line with earlier generalizations about AAVE, is that:

young African American men [adolescents, teenagers] maintain the vernacular dialect that is most different from standard English; adults drift closer to Standard English through their lifetime. (Baugh : 409)…”

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Declines in non‐standard negation of four Pacoima/ LA males between their teenage and adult years (adapted from Baugh : 411)…”

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 99%

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Girlz II women: Age‐grading, language change and stylistic variation

Rickford

Price

2013

Journal of Sociolinguistics

101

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Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 69%

“…By contrast, panel studies (e.g. Baugh ; Cukor‐Avila ; Hernández‐Campoy ; Sankoff and Blondeau ) specifically return to the same individuals at later points in time.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The overall conclusion he reaches, in line with earlier generalizations about AAVE, is that:

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Declines in non‐standard negation of four Pacoima/ LA males between their teenage and adult years (adapted from Baugh : 411)…”

Section: Evidence From Other Longitudinal Studies Of Aavementioning

confidence: 99%

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Girlz II women: Age‐grading, language change and stylistic variation

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2013

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Age Grading in Sociolinguistic Theory

Wagner

2012

Language and Linguist. Compass

120

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Distinguishing linguistic change at the community level (‘generational change’) from linguistic change at the individual level (‘age grading’) is “one of the major issues in contemporary sociolinguistics” (Tagliamonte 2012:247). This article gives a brief history of the study of language change in the community, before turning to the types of linguistic behavior that have been observed across individuals’ lifespans. The article also discusses the meanings that have been attributed to the term ‘age grading’, arguing that consensus cannot be reached without more longitudinal work to determine the limits of lifespan linguistic change.

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Epistemic Modality Constructions as Stable Idiolectal Features: A Cross-genre Study of Spanish

Mojedano Batel,

Soler Bonafont,

Kredens

2023

Int J Semiot Law

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Forensic authorship analysis is based on two assumptions: that every individual has a unique idiolect, and that features characteristic of that idiolect will recur with a relatively stable frequency. Yet, a speaker’s language can change with age, affective states, according to audience, or genre. Thus, studies on authorship analysis should adopt the theory that while some linguistic parameters of an idiolect can remain stable, others can change depending on various circumstances. This investigation, which takes a constructional and functional-based approach to discourse-level phenomena in idiolectal stability, analyzes cross-genre data produced by nine Mexican participants throughout a twelve-year time span. This study contributes to a greater understanding of the linguistic elements that survive genre effects and are potentially useful in both investigative and evidential forensic linguistic work. We provide a detailed description of linguistic features, their specific values, and context-dependent interpretation, keeping in mind the context of expert linguistic testimony, with its preference for methods which “employ linguistically motivated analyses in combination with quantitative tools” (Solan & Tiersma, 2004, p.463).Our findings show that idiolectal style tends to remain stable across genres and communication modes in epistemic modality constructions. Epistemic markers —specifically, markers indicating low commitment by the speaker (e.g., no sé ‘I don’t know’) or expressing indirectness when introducing the illocutionary force (e.g., la verdad [es que] ‘the truth [is that]’)— display idiolectal stability, as these markers seem to be the most effective in terms of allowing speakers to strategically manifest the extent of their knowledge regarding what is said.

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Dimensions of a theory of econolinguistics

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Girlz II women: Age‐grading, language change and stylistic variation

Girlz II women: Age‐grading, language change and stylistic variation

Age Grading in Sociolinguistic Theory

Epistemic Modality Constructions as Stable Idiolectal Features: A Cross-genre Study of Spanish

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