Language Change From Adolescence to Adulthood

Suzanne Evans Wagner's analysis offers important insights into how the rate of community language change intersects with individual linguistic trajectories, advancing our understanding of the lability of language use over the lifespan.

List of contents

1. The community and the individual in real time 2. Language change in the Philadelphia speech community 3. Adolescence 4. College and young adulthood 5. Discourse-pragmatic variables 6. Vowels above the social radar 7. Vowels below the social radar 8. Conclusions

About the author

Suzanne Evans Wagner is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Michigan State University and is co-editor of the series Routledge Studies in Language Change.

Summary

Suzanne Evans Wagner’s analysis offers important insights into how the rate of community language change intersects with individual linguistic trajectories, advancing our understanding of the lability of language use over the lifespan.

Additional text

"This book, a long-awaited sequel to Eckert's Jocks and Burnouts, takes us into the realm of variation and change beyond adolescence into young adulthood, providing answers to questions concerning change across the lifespan while pointing out new issues for the future of panel research." —Paul De Decker, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Evans Wagner, Suzanne Evans (Michigan State University Wagner, Wagner Suzanne Evans
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9781138928077
• ISBN: 978-1-138-92807-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Studies in Language Change; Routledge Studies in Language Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Age groups: adolescents, Historical and comparative linguistics