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Chapter 10 - A Tribute to Sociolinguist(ic)s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2025

Daniel Schreier
Daniel Schreier
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University of Zurich
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… you will notice differences in content and structure compared to those you have read and worked with so far. You will already have noticed that the introductory “In this chapter …” looks different, longer, and there are no key terms and take-away messages. Over the generously counted four years I spent writing this book, for the longest time I had no idea what to do with Chapter 10, to be frank. It was clear that the textbook, like all books, needed to finish in style to come full circle, but I came to realize that a simple chapter summary was neither necessary nor exciting. For a while, I was toying with the idea of bringing some big themes together – variation, identity, data, attitudes – but I could not really envisage something that would satisfy my own expectations or benefit BA students learning about sociolinguistics. As we have seen how diverse the field is, how much there is to learn and discover and research, synthesizing it all and then coming up with my personal interpretation or even projection of future developments seemed a bit, well, presumptuous. I was at a loss about what to do.

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English Sociolinguistics
An Introduction
 , pp. 272 - 305
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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