Dimensions of Linguistic Variation

Chris Cieri was a proud native Philadelphian with a lifelong affinity for his Italian heritage. His PhD examined phonological variation in L'Aquila, Italy. As LDC Executive Director from 1998-2023, he pursued his dual research interests in linguistics (variation, phonetics, phonology, morphology, dialectology) and language-related technologies (databases, annotation, computer-assisted analysis). As it evolved from a data repository and research hub to a prominent global data center, Chris developed the LDC's reputation for tackling complex research and developing high-quality resources. His goal was to provide tools for the development and dissemination of cross-linguistic data to be shared by sociolinguists around the world.Lauren Hall-Lew is Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She specializes in phonetic variation and change, with particular interest in the analysis of socioindexical meaning and its potential role in language changeKatie Drager is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'I at Manoa, specializing in sociophonetics and experimental sociolinguistics. Her research examines the link between linguistic forms and social meanings, especially how expectations about a talker can influence how listeners interpret the forms produced by that talker.Malcah Yaeger-Dror has carried out research on language variation and change in Canadian French, American English, and Israeli Hebrew communities.

• 1 Introduction to the VolumeChristopher Cieri, Lauren Hall-Lew, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, and Katie Drager2 Section 1 Introduction: Research Planning and Interactions with Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory IssuesChristopher Cieri3 IRBs, Researchers, and Social Media as (Socio)linguistic Field SitesAlexandra D'Arcy4 Conducting Linguistic Fieldwork with IRB Approval: A Suggested ApproachDenise DiPersio5 Section 2 Introduction: Introduction to Demographics and AttitudesLauren Hall-Lew and Christopher Cieri6 Sociolinguistics of Multicultural Societies: Implications for Data and MethodologyShobha Satyanath7 Bilingual CodingBarbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio8 Snapshots in Time: Coding Social Factors in Changing CommunitiesDevyani Sharma, Nathan Young9 Dialect ContactYoshiyuki Asahi10 Studying Ethnicity and Its Sociolinguistic Fluidities: Variationist Perspectives from English in South AfricaRajend Mesthrie11 Reorienting Blackness and Whiteness in Studies of Sociolinguistic VariationSonya Fix, Renée Blake, Cecelia Cutler, Nicole Holliday12 Diversity and Dialect Contact in North American Latinx CommunitiesRobert Bayley13 Conceptualizing and Coding Social Class in Linguistic CorporaJoshua Hummel, Jordan Holley, Robin Dodsworth, Suzanne Evans Wagner14 Social Class, Social Capital, Social Practice, and Language in British Sociolinguistics: UnravellingHistorical and Ethnographic Complexities Anne Fabricius15 What Can Macrosocial Categories Tell Us about Gender and Sexuality? Penelope Eckert 16 Understanding AgeDavid Bowie17 Religion and ReligiosityDavid Bowie and Malcah Yaeger-Dror18 Linguistic Variation and Political IdentityLauren Hall-Lew, Sarah van Eyndhoven19 Language Attitudes and Language ChangeNicolai Pharao20 Measuring AttitudesCarmen Llamas, Dominic Watt21 Levels of Linguistic AccommodationDominic Watt, Carmen Llamas22 Section 3 Introduction: Introduction to Social SituationLauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror23 What Kind of Data Is It? Situating Sociolinguistic Corpora in ContextSali A. Tagliamonte24 Best Practice for the Study of Language Change in Real Time Frans Gregersen, Gert Foget Hansen25 Coding Categories Relevant to InteractionRichard Ogden, Marina N. Cantarutti26 Approaching Variation in Political DiscourseJennifer Sclafani27 Self-Recordings and Oral Histories Sonia Barnes and Lauren Hall-Lew28 Social Media as a Sociolinguistic ResourceJacob Eisenstein29 Singing as a Dimension of Linguistic Variation: Considerations for a Corpus of Song Andy Gibson30 Discussion: Balancing Representativity and Metadata in Sociolinguistic CorporaTyler KendallIndex