Open Access- https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.8.2
What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates
- Dec 1, 2022
- Asia-Pacific Language Variation
- Jonathan R Kasstan
Abstract
ample quantitative evidence for this claim. 2Standard-language ideology can be understood as a bias towards an abstracted, idealized, homogeneous spoken language which is imposed from above, and which takes as its model the written language (Lippi-Green 1994: 166).This ideology, which gives rise to shared, community-wide notions of 'correct' (often interpreted as standard) and 'incorrect' (often interpreted as 'dialectal', or 'non-standard' or 'vernacular') language is found in most (if not all) European language communities and elsewhere (Kroskrity 2010; Schieffelin, Woolard & Kroskrity 1998). 3It is noteworthy that Labov (2016) himself has warned of the risks inherent in this.
