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Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research book cover

1st Edition

Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research

Edited By Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen V. Beaman Copyright 2026
350 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This collection engages with key questions in panel study research by exploring more deeply the interrelationship between the individual and the community and the impact on language change across the lifespan. The book is organized around four broad themes, each followed by a forward-looking commentary that ties together the key findings from the individual chapters. The first section examines... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

1. Towards an understanding of stylistic choices in change across the lifespan

Isabelle Buchstaller and Karen V. Beaman

 

PART I. Style and Socioindexicality

 

2. Aging in style: Towards disentangling style-shifting and lifespan change

James Grama, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne-Marie Moelders, Lea Bauernfeind and Mirjam E. Eiswith

 

3. Investigating age effects in the perception of (ing): A study on professionalism ratings from the North East of England

Johanna Mechler

 4. Change in language attitudes in real-time: Results from the Ulrichsberg project in Austria

Lars Bülow, Philip C. Vergeiner, and Dominik Wallner

 

5. Commentary – Style and social meaning across the lifespan

Suzanne Evans Wagner

 

 

PART II. Style and Audience Design

 

6. Tracking stylistic variation over a very long lifespan

Laurel MacKenzie

 

7. Stability, change and reversal in public speech: A longitudinal case study

Josiane Riverin-Coutlée and Jonathan Harrington

 

8. Commentary – Exploring Stylistic Repertoires Across the Lifespan 

Silvina Bongiovanni, Betsy Sneller, and Chantal Tetreault

 

 

PART III. Language Contact

 

9. Change and Stability: Intra- and inter-individual coherence across the linguistic architecture

Karen V. Beaman

 

10. Lifespan change and intra-generational norms in a diverse speech community: Australian English diphthongs

Elena Sheard

 

11. A panel study of language obsolescence: The fate of (ɡ) in a Pacific Japanese colonial koiné

Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain

 

12. Commentary – Complex contact scenarios in the context of individual lifespan change

Devyani Sharma

 

 

PART IV. Computational Modeling

 

13. Structured heterogeneity in language change as a result of inter-speaker heterogeneity

Gareth J. Baxter, Richard A. Blythe, and William Croft

 

14. The past, present, and future of language and aging research

David Bowie

 

Index

Biography

Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Karen V. Beaman is Lecturer in the Quantitative Linguistics department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

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