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Varieties of English around the world, Nov 19, 2015
Studies in language variation, 2011
... 152 Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen P. Corrigan (1) a. The children says they will retur... more ... 152 Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen P. Corrigan (1) a. The children says they will return your kindness when they goØ out there…(Fitzpatrick 1994 ... the extent to which the phenomenon was constrained by the lexical frequency of the verb or by the verb type (Huddleston & Pullum ...
English World-Wide
An understanding of linguistic heterogeneity in older speakers is crucial for the study of langua... more An understanding of linguistic heterogeneity in older speakers is crucial for the study of language variation and change. To date, intra-speaker malleability in older populations remains under-researched, in varieties of English and more generally. This paper contributes panel data to the question of how aging individuals engage with ongoing changes in the realisation of (t) in the Tyneside region in the North-East of England. We examine the variable ways in which six speakers recorded in their 20s/30s and re-interviewed in their 60s/70s adapt to community-wide change. The finding that some speakers exhibit malleability in their variable realisation of (t) substantiates a life-course perspective over a strict maturational explanation. More specifically, our analysis explores the contribution of long-term (in)stability to lifespan-specific identity construction in the Tyneside area. Our findings support calls for the incorporation of sophisticated statistical methods in combination w...
Research Methods in Linguistics
Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change, 2020
Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 2012
1. Authors' biographies 2. Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives (by Buchst... more 1. Authors' biographies 2. Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives (by Buchstaller, Isabelle) 3. Part I. Discourse perspectives 4. Impersonal quotation and hypothetical discourse (by Golato, Andrea) 5. By three means: The pragmatic functions of three Norwegian quotatives (by Hasund, Ingrid Kristine) 6. Part II. Typological perspectives 7. Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotatives (by Spronck, Stef) 8. Thetic speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type (by Guldemann, Tom) 9. Part III. Functional and formal perspectives 10. On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse: A study with special reference to elliptic quotation (by Oshima, David) 11. Quotative go and be like: Grammar and grammaticalization (by Vandelanotte, Lieven) 12. Quotation in sign languages: A visible context shift (by Herrmann, Annika) 13. Part IV. Language variation and change 14. Performed narrative: The pragmatic function of this is + speaker and other quotatives in London adolescent speech (by Fox, Sue) 15. Dutch quotative van: Past and present (by Coppen, Peter-Arno) 16. appendixGlossary of specialist terms for research in quotation 17. Author index 18. Index of terms
Language in Society
This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparati... more This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and Poznań (Poland) over a period of 102 years. Our analysis combines memory studies, linguistic landscape (LL) research and critical toponymy with GIS visualization techniques to explore (turnovers in) naming practices across time and space. The key difference between the two localities lies in the commemorative pantheon of referents—events, people, and places inscribed as traces of a hegemonic national past—that are replaced when commemorative priorities change. Other patterns are common to both study sites. Notably, in both Poznań and Leipzig, peaks of renaming occur at the threshold of regime change, after which commemorative renaming activity subsides. We report on our findings and propose methodological guidelines for analyzing street renaming from a longitudinal, transnational, and interdisciplinary perspe...
Linguistic landscape, Feb 8, 2022
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In 2016, a special issue of the <j... more <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In 2016, a special issue of the <jats:italic>Linguistic Landscapes: An International Journal</jats:italic> explored the nexus between LL and collective memory studies, calling for more research at the interface of these disciplines. Our analysis adds to recent studies by exploring the ways in which commemorative street renaming processes are discursively embedded. We build on research on memorialisation as well as critical toponymy to analyse media discourses that accompany, support or contest commemorative naming practices in the urban streetscape of a large East German city during the last century. Based on this dataset, we develop a typology of arguments against or in favour of street renaming. The longitudinal analysis of discourses in the local press vis-à-vis ongoing resemioticisation reveals a complex relationship between lived political history, freedom of the press, the type of argument and the stances encoded therein.</jats:p>
Journal of Linguistic Geography
This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name chang... more This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city in eastern Germany, over the past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on the ways in which semantic choices in the streetscape are recruited to canonize traces of the national past that are “supportive of the hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate results from variationist sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies and geographical analysis to visualize waves of street (re)naming during a century of political turmoil. Drawing on historical archival data allows us to interpret spatial and temporal patterns of odonymic choices as the public embodiment of subsequent political state ideologies. The analysis provides quantitative and longitudinal support to Scollon and Scollon’s (2003) claim that the indexing of officially sanctioned identity and ideology as well as the appropriation of human space are performed by and in turn ...
Studies in Language Variation, 2017
We present the results of an interdisciplinary project exploring street name changes in Leipzig (... more We present the results of an interdisciplinary project exploring street name changes in Leipzig (Germany), over the past 102 years. Our analysis focuses on the ways in which semantic choices in the streetscape express the national past and support the hegemonic socio-political order by visualising waves of street (re)naming during a century of political turmoil. Drawing on historical archival data allows us to interpret spatial and temporal patterns as the public embodiment of subsequent political state ideologies, demonstrating that the indexing of officially sanctioned identity and ideology as well as the appropriation of urban space are performed by and in turn index state- hegemonic politics of memory.
The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics, 2017
Sociolinguistics in England, 2018
Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change, 2020
Varieties of English around the world, Nov 19, 2015
Studies in language variation, 2011
... 152 Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen P. Corrigan (1) a. The children says they will retur... more ... 152 Isabelle Buchstaller & Karen P. Corrigan (1) a. The children says they will return your kindness when they goØ out there…(Fitzpatrick 1994 ... the extent to which the phenomenon was constrained by the lexical frequency of the verb or by the verb type (Huddleston & Pullum ...
English World-Wide
An understanding of linguistic heterogeneity in older speakers is crucial for the study of langua... more An understanding of linguistic heterogeneity in older speakers is crucial for the study of language variation and change. To date, intra-speaker malleability in older populations remains under-researched, in varieties of English and more generally. This paper contributes panel data to the question of how aging individuals engage with ongoing changes in the realisation of (t) in the Tyneside region in the North-East of England. We examine the variable ways in which six speakers recorded in their 20s/30s and re-interviewed in their 60s/70s adapt to community-wide change. The finding that some speakers exhibit malleability in their variable realisation of (t) substantiates a life-course perspective over a strict maturational explanation. More specifically, our analysis explores the contribution of long-term (in)stability to lifespan-specific identity construction in the Tyneside area. Our findings support calls for the incorporation of sophisticated statistical methods in combination w...
Research Methods in Linguistics
Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change, 2020
Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 2012
1. Authors' biographies 2. Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives (by Buchst... more 1. Authors' biographies 2. Preface: Introductory remarks on new and old quotatives (by Buchstaller, Isabelle) 3. Part I. Discourse perspectives 4. Impersonal quotation and hypothetical discourse (by Golato, Andrea) 5. By three means: The pragmatic functions of three Norwegian quotatives (by Hasund, Ingrid Kristine) 6. Part II. Typological perspectives 7. Minds divided: Speaker attitudes in quotatives (by Spronck, Stef) 8. Thetic speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type (by Guldemann, Tom) 9. Part III. Functional and formal perspectives 10. On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse: A study with special reference to elliptic quotation (by Oshima, David) 11. Quotative go and be like: Grammar and grammaticalization (by Vandelanotte, Lieven) 12. Quotation in sign languages: A visible context shift (by Herrmann, Annika) 13. Part IV. Language variation and change 14. Performed narrative: The pragmatic function of this is + speaker and other quotatives in London adolescent speech (by Fox, Sue) 15. Dutch quotative van: Past and present (by Coppen, Peter-Arno) 16. appendixGlossary of specialist terms for research in quotation 17. Author index 18. Index of terms
Language in Society
This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparati... more This article contributes to research on commemorative naming strategies by presenting a comparative longitudinal study on changes in the urban toponymy of Leipzig (Germany) and Poznań (Poland) over a period of 102 years. Our analysis combines memory studies, linguistic landscape (LL) research and critical toponymy with GIS visualization techniques to explore (turnovers in) naming practices across time and space. The key difference between the two localities lies in the commemorative pantheon of referents—events, people, and places inscribed as traces of a hegemonic national past—that are replaced when commemorative priorities change. Other patterns are common to both study sites. Notably, in both Poznań and Leipzig, peaks of renaming occur at the threshold of regime change, after which commemorative renaming activity subsides. We report on our findings and propose methodological guidelines for analyzing street renaming from a longitudinal, transnational, and interdisciplinary perspe...
Linguistic landscape, Feb 8, 2022
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In 2016, a special issue of the <j... more <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In 2016, a special issue of the <jats:italic>Linguistic Landscapes: An International Journal</jats:italic> explored the nexus between LL and collective memory studies, calling for more research at the interface of these disciplines. Our analysis adds to recent studies by exploring the ways in which commemorative street renaming processes are discursively embedded. We build on research on memorialisation as well as critical toponymy to analyse media discourses that accompany, support or contest commemorative naming practices in the urban streetscape of a large East German city during the last century. Based on this dataset, we develop a typology of arguments against or in favour of street renaming. The longitudinal analysis of discourses in the local press vis-à-vis ongoing resemioticisation reveals a complex relationship between lived political history, freedom of the press, the type of argument and the stances encoded therein.</jats:p>
Journal of Linguistic Geography
This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name chang... more This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city in eastern Germany, over the past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on the ways in which semantic choices in the streetscape are recruited to canonize traces of the national past that are “supportive of the hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate results from variationist sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscape (LL) studies and geographical analysis to visualize waves of street (re)naming during a century of political turmoil. Drawing on historical archival data allows us to interpret spatial and temporal patterns of odonymic choices as the public embodiment of subsequent political state ideologies. The analysis provides quantitative and longitudinal support to Scollon and Scollon’s (2003) claim that the indexing of officially sanctioned identity and ideology as well as the appropriation of human space are performed by and in turn ...
Studies in Language Variation, 2017
We present the results of an interdisciplinary project exploring street name changes in Leipzig (... more We present the results of an interdisciplinary project exploring street name changes in Leipzig (Germany), over the past 102 years. Our analysis focuses on the ways in which semantic choices in the streetscape express the national past and support the hegemonic socio-political order by visualising waves of street (re)naming during a century of political turmoil. Drawing on historical archival data allows us to interpret spatial and temporal patterns as the public embodiment of subsequent political state ideologies, demonstrating that the indexing of officially sanctioned identity and ideology as well as the appropriation of urban space are performed by and in turn index state- hegemonic politics of memory.
The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics, 2017
Sociolinguistics in England, 2018
Advancing Socio-grammatical Variation and Change, 2020