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Kirk Hazen
After 50 years of scholarship, variationist methods have been expanded to accomplish a wider diversity of goals, yet early approaches developed from 20th century dialectology and served dialectological goals. After the 1990, the broader field of sociolinguistics began to shift its focus from the correlation of demographic categories with sociolinguistic variables at the level of the speech community to the explanation of social meaning as created by individuals’ use of language variation patterns, designated as a shift to a thirdMwave of sociolinguistics. In this shift, there is less focus on dialects as geographically anchored entities, but there is also an opportunity to foster dialectology to account for individuals’ patterns within dialects. This paper illustrates how the traditional dialectology methods can be used to establish “thirdMwave dialectology”.
