Coherence of Linguistic Communities

Karen V. Beaman is a Lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. Her research interests concern language variation, coherence and change, with particular focus on how factors of identity, mobility, and social networks drive or inhibit change. Gregory R. Guy is Professor at New York University, USA. His research focuses on social, geographic, and diachronic diversity in language, and the implications of linguistic variation for the construction of linguistic theory in varieties of English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

• The coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaningKaren V. Beaman and Gregory R. GuyPART I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF COHERENCE1. False oppositions in the study of coherenceDevyani Sharma2. Coherence across social and temporal scalesMeredith Tamminga and Lacey Wade3. Indexicality and coherenceGregory R. Guy, Livia Oushiro, and Ronald Beline MendesPART II. METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF COHERENCE4. What’s in a Lect? Coherence in Phonetic and Grammatical VariationJames A. Walker, Michol F. Hoffman, and Miriam Meyerhoff5. Measuring change in lectal coherence across real- and apparent-timeKaren V. Beaman and Konstantin Sering6. Looking for covariation in heritage Italian in Toronto Naomi Nagy and Timothy Gadanidis7. Measuring distance-based coherenceBenedikt SzmrecsanyiPART III: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF COHERENCE8. How social salience can illuminate the outcomes of linguistic contact: Data from Spanish in Boston Danny Erker9. Mapping social and sociophonetic changes: Gender in Auckland EnglishEvan Hazenberg10. Coherence and implicational hierarchies in the speech of the very oldAria AdliPART IV: PERCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF COHERENCE11. Not anything goes: On implicational coherence and the penalty for being incoherentAnne-Sophie Ghyselen and Stefan Grondelaers12. Coherent patterns in nonstandard inflection in modern colloquial Standard Dutch?Hans Bennis and Frans Hinskens13. Coherence in a levelled variety: The case of AndalusianJuan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Matilde Vida-Castro, and Álvaro Molina-GarcíaPART V. EFFECTS OF STANDARD LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES ON COHERENCE 14. Identifying language varieties: Coexisting standards in spoken ItalianMassimo Cerruti and Alessandro Vietti15. Language change in real-time: 40 years of lectal coherence in the Central Bavarian dialect-standard constellation of AustriaPhilip C. Vergeiner, Dominik Wallner, and Lars Bülow16. Coherence and language contact: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning in Namibian GermanHeike Wiese, Antje Sauermann, and Yannic BrackeINDEX