Revisiting standardisation and variation

Linda Pilliere (1) , Diana M. Lewis (1)

1 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone

“Standardisation” and “variation” are very familiar terms from the sociolinguistics literature (Labov 1972; Haugen 1972; Trudgill 1974 ; Milroy 1987 among many). But the relationship between them may be much more complex than is often assumed. The papers in this volume together challenge the notion of a simple opposition between the two concepts, by exploring aspects of English standardisation and variation in their interaction with social contexts.

Domains: Linguistics

Linda Pilliere, Diana M. Lewis. Revisiting standardisation and variation. E-rea - Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone, 2018, 15 (2), ⟨10.4000/erea.6090⟩. ⟨hal-01995837⟩