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Eckert (2008): Variation and the indexical field #

This file formalizes the indexical field of [Eck08]. On [Sil03]'s indexical order, a first-order index marks membership in a population and every nth-order value is available for an n + 1st reconstrual, so the paper takes the meaning of a variable to be not a fixed category but the constellation of ideologically linked meanings that continual reconstrual creates, any of which a situated use may activate. An ideological field records what each meaning is available to be construed as (IdeologicalField), a reconstrual adds those construals to a set of meanings, and the indexical field of a first-order index is its closure under reconstrual, a closure operator whose closed sets are the sets no reconstrual extends.

The examples are the paper's. [Lab63]'s Martha's Vineyard (ay) is an indicator become a marker. The (ING) field of Figure 3, after [CK07], holds favourable and unfavourable meanings for both variants, and a hearer expects the variant whose field holds the impression formed of the speaker. The stances of the /t/ release field of Figure 4 accrete into qualities, social types anchor the field, and [Pod07]'s diva combines the two extremes of the articulation continuum. Among the Belten High groups of Figure 1, the burnout girls alone are among the leaders of every variable.

Implementation notes #

Figures 3 and 4 are recorded as printed and the ideological links as the text states them; the graded strengths of SocialMeaning.AssociationField are not in the paper. Leads marks a group among the greatest or second-greatest users of Figure 1 and is derived from the text's two generalizations, that girls lead the older changes and burnouts the newer. The burned-out burnout girls, the Beijing variables of Figure 2 from [Zha05], Podesva's release-rate measurements and the (DH) discussion are not represented.

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Indexical order and the indexical field #

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abbrev Eckert2008.IdeologicalField (T : Type u_1) :
Type u_1

An ideological field records, for each potential meaning, the meanings it is available to be construed as, the links along which an nth-order value acquires an n + 1st.

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    def Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.construe {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) (S : Finset T) :
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    One reconstrual of S adds to its meanings everything they are construed as.

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      theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.mem_construe {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) {S : Finset T} {t : T} :
      t ∈ I.construe S ↔ t ∈ S ∨ ∃ s ∈ S, t ∈ I s
      theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.subset_construe {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) (S : Finset T) :
      S ⊆ I.construe S
      theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.construe_mono {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) :
      Monotone I.construe
      theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.monotone_construe_iterate {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) (S : Finset T) :
      Monotone fun (n : ℕ) => I.construe^[n] S

      Reconstrual only adds meanings, so the values of order n are among those of order n + 1.

      def Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.indexicalField {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) [Fintype T] :
      ClosureOperator (Finset T)

      The indexical field of a first-order index is its closure under the ideological links, every meaning the index is continually reconstrued as.

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        theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.mem_indexicalField {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) {S : Finset T} {t : T} [Fintype T] :
        t ∈ I.indexicalField S ↔ ∃ s ∈ S, Relation.ReflTransGen (fun (a b : T) => b ∈ I a) s t
        theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.iterate_construe_subset_indexicalField {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) [Fintype T] (n : ℕ) (S : Finset T) :
        I.construe^[n] S ⊆ I.indexicalField S

        The reconstruals of every order lie in the field.

        theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.mem_indexicalField_iff_exists_iterate {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) {S : Finset T} {t : T} [Fintype T] :
        t ∈ I.indexicalField S ↔ ∃ (n : ℕ), t ∈ I.construe^[n] S

        Continual reconstrual creates, in the end, the indexical field, a meaning lying in the field exactly when some order of reconstrual reaches it.

        theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.isClosed_iff {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) {S : Finset T} [Fintype T] :
        I.indexicalField.IsClosed S ↔ I.construe S = S

        A set of meanings is closed exactly when no reconstrual extends it.

        theorem Eckert2008.IdeologicalField.indexicalField_eq_iterate {T : Type u_1} [DecidableEq T] (I : IdeologicalField T) {S : Finset T} [Fintype T] {n : ℕ} (h : I.construe (I.construe^[n] S) = I.construe^[n] S) :
        I.indexicalField S = I.construe^[n] S

        Once a reconstrual stabilizes, it is the indexical field.

        Martha's Vineyard (ay) #

        The meanings of centralized (ay) are membership among Vineyarders and the claim about what a Vineyarder is that the fishermen made with the variant, local authenticity and opposition to the mainland.

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          The island's ideological field makes available to the index the evaluation of Vineyarders that the disagreements about the future of the island raised.

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            The first-order index of centralized (ay) is membership among Vineyarders.

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              The indicator becomes a marker, local authenticity being a second-order value of centralized (ay) and not a first-order one.

              The (ING) field, Figure 3 #

              The velar and apical variants of (ING).

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                The potential meanings of Figure 3, the velar variant heard as educated, formal, effortful and articulate or pretentious, the apical as uneducated, relaxed, easygoing or lazy, and inarticulate or unpretentious.

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                  The (ING) field of Figure 3, black for the velar variant and gray for the apical.

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                    A hearer's evaluation of a meaning is favourable or unfavourable.

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                      The text attaches evaluations to the meanings the figure pairs as alternatives, the apical speaker heard as inarticulate or lazy or else as unpretentious or easygoing and the velar speaker as articulate or as pretentious; the other meanings carry none.

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                        A hearer's evaluation activates the region of a variant's field it evaluates that way.

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                          theorem Eckert2008.activate_nonempty (e : Evaluation) (v : INGVariant) :
                          (activate e v).Nonempty

                          The pairs do not work in lockstep, each variant having favourable and unfavourable meanings.

                          Presupposed indexicality expects of a speaker the variants whose field holds the impression the hearer has formed of the speaker from general style and content.

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                            An impression of the speaker as educated leads the hearer to expect the velar variant, one as uneducated the apical.

                            The social moves a hearer attributes to the wrong variant.

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                              The expected variant passes, and the wrong one is heard as pretentious, condescending or insincere.

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                                The velar variant from a speaker taken to be uneducated is heard as a move.

                                The /t/ release field, Figure 4 #

                                The stances of Figure 4, momentary and situated.

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                                  The permanent qualities of Figure 4, and the quality of habitually taking a stance, the angry person of stance accretion.

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                                    def Eckert2008.instDecidableEqTQuality.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : TQuality) :
                                    Decidable (x✝ = x✝¹)
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                                      A meaning of /t/ release is a stance or a quality.

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                                        Stance accretion is the ideological field on which a stance is available to be construed as the quality of habitually taking it, the mechanism by which the field is elaborated.

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                                          The stances of a set of meanings accrete into qualities.

                                          The field of /t/ release of Figure 4, nine stances and four qualities.

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                                            Qualities are construed no further, so accretion elaborates the field in one round, and the indexical field of /t/ release is Figure 4 with the habitual quality of each of its stances.

                                            The social types of Figure 4 are the enregistered voices at the less fluid end of the field that anchor interpretation, the British of the stereotype /t/ release evokes, the school teacher of the standard of clear speech, the nerd girl who builds on that standard while distancing herself from teachers, and the gay diva of [Pod07]'s Heath.

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                                              Each type anchors the meanings the text gives it, the British the articulateness of their stereotype and the elegance it opens up, the teacher clear, careful standard speech, the nerd girl its clarity and education, the diva the prissiness of the teacher's pet with exasperation.

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                                                The nerd girls build on the school-teachery standard from which they distance themselves.

                                                The diva's generalized attitude of exasperation is the stance accreted into a quality.

                                                The continuum of /t/ articulation runs from hypo- to hyperarticulation, from the deletion stigmatized in African American English through the flap of American English and the release of British English to the exaggerated release of the diva's parody.

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                                                  The diva style combines deletion with exaggerated bursts.

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                                                    theorem Eckert2008.divaStyle_eq :
                                                    divaStyle = {⊥, ⊤}

                                                    The diva style is the two extremes of the continuum.

                                                    Belten High, Figure 1 #

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                                                      The school-oriented jocks and the urban-oriented burnouts.

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                                                        A social category of Figure 1 crosses gender with orientation.

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                                                          def Eckert2008.instDecidableEqGroup.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Group) :
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                                                            The seven variables fall into three strata, the older fronting components of the Northern Cities Shift, stabilized across the suburbs, the newer backing changes more advanced near the urban centre, and negative concord.

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                                                              A group leads a stratum when it is among the greatest or second-greatest users Figure 1 marks, girls for the older changes and burnouts for the newer urban changes and negative concord.

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                                                                theorem Eckert2008.leads_all_iff (g : Group) :
                                                                (∀ (s : Stratum), Leads g s) ↔ g = { gender := Gender.girl, orientation := Orientation.burnout }

                                                                The burnout girls alone are among the leaders of every variable, the two leaderships crossing gender with orientation, the urban–suburban opposition embedded within the school.

                                                                theorem Eckert2008.jockBoys_lead_none (s : Stratum) :
                                                                ¬Leads { gender := Gender.boy, orientation := Orientation.jock } s

                                                                The jock boys lead nothing.