The Variationist List
The new online resource for sociolinguists worldwide
Variationists are invited to join the
Variationist List, the international
e-mail discussion-list on variationist
sociolinguistics!
http://j.mp/VAR-L
Discuss
with colleagues worldwide at the
click of a mouse –
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any problem to do with variationist
/ Labovian sociolinguistics
·
problems of sociolinguistic
analysis of any language
·
anything that might influence
variationist analysis: social theories, recommended statistical techniques, theory
from other branches of linguistics …
Discussions
so far:
·
normalisation techniques
·
how to treat mergers in a variationist analysis (the mergers were
in French)
·
the appropriate level of complexity
in statistical treatment of linguistic data
·
fieldwork techniques
and
more …
Over 400 members so far, from
distinguished scholars to undergraduates - all
welcome, and all encouraged to post!