Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel - Researc

This collection, the third in a series of three volumes, engages with key questions in panel study research by exploring more deeply the interrelationship between the individual and the community and the impact on language change across the lifespan.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Towards an understanding of stylistic choices in change across the lifespan

Isabelle Buchstaller and Karen V. Beaman
PART I. Style and Socioindexicality

1. Ageing in style: Towards disentangling style-shifting and lifespan change

James Grama, Isabelle Buchstaller, Anne-Marie Moelders, Lea Bauernfeind and Mirjam Eiswith

1. Investigating age effects in the perception of (ing): A study on professionalism ratings from the North East of England

Johanna Mechler

1. Change in language attitudes in real-time: Results from the Ulrichsberg project in Austria

Lars Bülow, Philip C. Vergeiner, and Dominik Wallner

1. Commentary - Style and social meaning across the lifespan

Suzanne Evans Wagner
PART II. Style and Audience Design

1. Tracking stylistic variation over a very long lifespan

Laurel MacKenzie

1. Stability, change and reversal in public speech: A longitudinal case study

Josiane Riverin-Coutlée and Jonathan Harrington

1. Commentary - Exploring Stylistic Repertoires Across the Lifespan

Silvina Bongiovanni, Betsy Sneller, and Chantal Tetreault
PART III. Language Contact

1. Change and Stability: Intra- and inter-individual coherence across the linguistic architecture

Karen V. Beaman

1. Lifespan change and intragenerational norms in a diverse speech community: Australian English diphthongs

Elena Sheard

1. A panel study of language obsolescence: The fate of (¿) in a Pacific Japanese colonial koiné

Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain

1. Commentary - Complex contact scenarios in the context of individual lifespan change

Devyani Sharma
PART IV. Computational Modeling

1. Structured heterogeneity in language change as a result of inter-speaker heterogeneity

Gareth J. Baxter, Richard A. Blythe, and William Croft

1. Commentary - The past, present and future of language and aging research

David Bowie
Index

About the author

Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Karen V. Beaman is Lecturer in the Quantitative Linguistics department at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Beaman Buchstaller
• Assisted by: Karen V. Beaman (Editor), Buchstaller Isabelle (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032413082
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241308-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Routledge Studies in Language Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics