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Introduction,en theorized. Standardization is of course the manifestation of an ideology, and we consider here, as well as its effects on speakers in general, those which press upon the practitioners of linguistics, both in the ‘theoretical’ branches and in sub-disciplines relying on empirical methods.

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Language change,ology of standardization. After that, in Section 4.3, we show how conceptualizing language change in terms of systemic change is problematic in a number of ways. As part of this, we examine the difficulties involved in reconciling the abruptness that is implicit in the notion of parameter resetting

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Book 2013The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization.

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