Aims: The paper aims at providing an exhaustive overview of studies of small-scale
multilingualism, a type of language ecology typical of—but not exclusive to—indigenous …

Over the past 50 years, variationist sociolinguists have taken the influential ideas and
pioneering methods of Labov () to many locations around the world. But the majority of …

The motivation for this volume was the editors' awareness of a Western dominance in
sociolinguistic theory-making. The incompatibility of several dominant sociolinguistic …

Abstract In Arnhem Land, northern Australia, speakers of the Burarra language live and
communicate within a highly multilingual and multilectal language ecology. This paper …

Background Shui communities of southwest China have an extensive history of using wild
plants as starters (Xiaoqu) to prepare fermented beverages that serve important roles in …

This thesis is about the life and language of kardu kigay—young Aboriginal men in the town
of Wadeye, northern Australia. Kigay have attained some notoriety within Australia for their …

This special issue explores the contested notion of Chineseness through an examination of
the language ideologies and practices of those who are arguably on its margins. The six …

Recent studies have highlighted divergent change as a more common outcome of language
contact than previously thought. While convergent change is often attributed to bilingual …

Labov recapitulates his view of linguistics when he entered the field in 1961, and what he
hoped to achieve. He acknowledges Meyerhoff's stress on the convergence of methods and …

As lesser studied minority languages are added to the purview of quantitative variationist
sociolinguistics, we naturally expect to see lesser studied sociolinguistic variables brought to …