Indeterminacy and regularization: A process-based approach to the study of sociolinguistic variation and language ideologies

Sociolinguistic Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-251

  Jaffe, Alexandra M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideology; Indeterminacy; Indexicality; Sociolinguistic variables; Sociolinguistics; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955676364     PISSN: 17508649     EISSN: 17508657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sols.v3i2.229     Document Type: Article

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