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indexical field: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

the set of related, shifting social meanings a single linguistic variable can call up depending on context.

In sociolinguistics, indexical field refers to the set of related, shifting social meanings a single linguistic variable can call up depending on context. This meaning comes from Eckert (2008) in Journal of Sociolinguistics.[1]

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References

Eckert, P. (2008). Variation and the indexical field. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(4), 453-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00374.x

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