Full Description
The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has been conducted on the basis of trend studies, such as replications of cross-sectional studies, or comparisons between present-day cross-sectional data and 'legacy' data. While the past few years have seen an increasing interest in panel research, much of this work has been published in a variety of formats and languages and is thus not easily accessible. This edited volume brings together the major researchers in the field of panel research, highlighting connections and convergences across and between chapters, methods and findings with the aim of initiating a dialogue about best practices and ways forward in sociolinguistic panel studies. By providing, for the first time, a platform for key research on panel data in one coherent edition, this volume aims to shape the agenda in this increasingly vibrant field of research.
Contents
Introduction
Isabelle Buchstaller and Suzanne Evans Wagner
I. Methodological conundrums in building, sharing and analyzing panel corpora
Before there were corpora: The evolution of the Montreal French project as a longitudinal study
Gillian Sankoff
Alternative sources of panel study data: Opportunities, caveats and suggestions
Christopher Cieri and Malcah Yaeger-Dror
On the utility of composite indices in longitudinal language study: The case of African American Language
Janneke Van Hofwegen and Walt Wolfram
II. Key life-stage events across the life-span
Longitudinal sociophonetic analysis: What to expect when working with child and adolescent data
Mary Kohn and Charlie Farrington
The influence of age on estimating sound change acoustically from longitudinal data
Ulrich Reubold and Jonathan Harrington
III. Stylistic determinants of linguistic malleability
Comparing speech samples: On the challenge of comparability in panel studies of language change in real time
Frans Gregersen, Torben Juel Jensen and Nicolai Pharao
The effect of small Ns and gaps in contact on panel survey data
Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey
What makes a panel study work? Researcher and participant in real time
Suzanne Evans Wagner and Sali A. Tagliamonte
IV. Interdisciplinary approaches
Ethnographic perspectives on panel studies and longitudinal research
Chantal Tetreault
Longitudinal studies in sociolinguistics and SLA: Bridging two parallel routes
Hélène Blondeau
