Abstract
In this commentary, I offer a review of how sociolinguistic scales featured in the development of my own work over the past decade. Scales, I explain, were always indispensable as an imaginative concept allowing a reimagination of sociolinguistic facts, but the concept of scales was never sufficient to adequately address this reimagined reality. I illustrate this point by means of an account of how scales helped me address three fundamental problems: The problem of meaning, that of situatedness, and that of indexicality.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 375-380 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Applied Linguistics Review |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2021 |
Keywords
- asylum seekers
- complexity
- globalization
- indexicality
- polycentricity
- scales
- sociolinguistic theory