Contemporary Transformations of Local Linguistic Communities
Author(s)
Silverstein, Michael
Abstract
Regularities of entextualization/contextualization of discourse, group-relative reflexive ideological engagement with language-in-culture and language structure as a synchronic abstraction are three likely points of methodological access into the transformation of local language communities. The three are also epistemologically unique phenomena to be engaged in a local language community. With regards to entextualization/contextualization, texts-in-context that are simultaneous semiotic moments of an experientially unitary phenomenon are produced from actual usage of language.
