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Stockwell. Ch 6A. standardisation. Sociolinguistics. Trowbridge, UK. -…
Stockwell. Ch 6A. standardisation. Sociolinguistics. Trowbridge, UK.
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Vitality
Whether there is a living community of speakers who use the code or whether the language is dead or dying (like Manx, Cornish, Latin, Tocharian).
Historicity
Whether speakers have a sense of the longevity of their code (compare Modern Greek with Modern Hebrew).
Autonomy
Whether speakers consider their code to be substantially different from others (compare the relative status of Standard English / German with Standard English / Scots).
Reduction
Whether speakers consider the code to be a sub-variety or a full code in its own right, whether it has a reduced set of social functions. For example, it might not have its own writing system (like Geordie or Scouse) or might have only a very reduced function (like a football chant accent).
Unofficial Norms
Whether speakers have a sense of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ varieties of the code, even if there is no ‘official’ codification in grammars and dictionaries.
Mixture
Whether speakers consider their language ‘pure’ (as do the French) or a mixture of other languages (as are creoles).
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