Sociolinguistic scales in retrospect

Abstract: In this commentary, I offer a review of how sociolinguistic scales featured in the development of my own work over the past decade. Scales, I explain, were always indispensable as an imaginative concept allowing a reimagination of sociolinguistic facts, but the concept of scales was never sufficient to adequately address this reimagined reality. I illustrate this point by means of an account of how scales helped me address three fundamental problems: the problem of meaning, that of situatedness, and that of indexicality.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Sociolinguistic scales in retrospect ; volume:12 ; number:3 ; year:2021 ; pages:375-380 ; extent:6 ; Applied linguistics review ; 12, Heft 3 (2021), 375-380 (gesamt 6)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Blommaert, Jan

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/applirev-2019-0132
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024041515404534201123
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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