Name: Language Variation, Change and Standardisation
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Language Variation, Change and Standardisation

Edited By: Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė

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This book offers a rare combination of research on language variation, change, and standardisation. It provides a new framework for study that rethinks their relationship, exploring how language varieties are a source of human power and an essential sign of identity.

This book is a collection of interesting and relevant research papers on language variation, change, and standardisation in some Indo-European languages and beyond. Focusing on…

This book is a collection of interesting and relevant research papers on language variation, change, and standardisation in some Indo-European languages and beyond. Focusing on both theoretical and practical issues, it is unique in that it offers a rare combination of language variation, change, and standardisation, rethinking the relationship between language variation and standardisation. The book provides a new framework for the study of language standardisation that takes us beyond the still dominant normative monolingualism. Some research concludes that there is always a conceptually unbridgeable gap between the notion of language change and the notion of standardisation, and that some language varieties are the source of human power and an essential sign of identity for those who have them in their heritage. This book aims to continue the dialogue with scholars, stimulate interest in language, and foster discussion on current language issues between academics and the public.

Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė is an associate professor of semantics and dialectology at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. She is the author of the monograph Bendrinės latvių kalbos vietos prieveiksmių semantinė struktūra (The Semantic Structure of Place Adverbs in Standard Latvian, 2014), two chapters in the monograph XXI a. pradžios lietuvių tarmės: geolingvistinis ir sociolingvistinis tyrimas (Lithuanian Dialects of the Early 21st Century: A Geolinguistic and Sociolinguistic Study, 2014) and one chapter (Mofologinių sekų modeliai, Models of Morphological Sequences) in the monograph Studentų darbų fraziškumas (Phrasemes in Student Writing, 2020). She has published 36 papers in the fields of semantics, historical linguistics, academic language, pragmatics, and dialectology. She has edited six publications, mainly on variation, but also on the meaning of Baltic texts and words (2016–2022), published two textbooks (2018, 2020) and co-authored an electronic academic phrasebook (Akademinių frazių sąvadas, 2020).

Albinas Drukteinis, Andra Kalnača, Anna Mlekodaj, Dalius Jarmalavicius, Danguolė Straižytė, Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Joseph M. Brincat, Nicola McLelland, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Virginija Jūratė Pukevičiūtė