While the field of variationist sociolinguistics has advanced rapidly since Labov (1966), it
remains the case that a socially informed theory of language change continues to be …

The Flipside, a website which playfully addresses life as a deaf person generally, and in the
US specifically, in September 2017 publishes a video. We see a deaf person spotting …

The emergence of Indigenous language revitalization seeks to address historical
domination over Indigenous peoples and to recover the loss of ancestral languages as …

This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers conducted in
Germany. Data were collected using a questionnaire instrument launched in 2021. To our …

In this paper, we study the phenomenon of linguistic mudes or transformations in linguistic
practices, in the case of highly proficient speakers of Irish, Basque and Catalan and we …

This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the
linguistic practices and ideologies of" new speakers" specifically in an Irish language …

The Irish language is a minority language undergoing the attenuation and accelerated
change commonly seen as threatened languages come under increasing pressure from the …

This study examines the role of new speaker parents who have made a conscious decision
to bring up their children in Galician, a language which they themselves did not acquire in …

This paper explores the sociolinguistic practices of a group of young bilingual rappers in the
Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Against the background of ongoing language shift to Spanish …

This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language in the context
of theories of language planning and the relationship between language and identity. It …