A new sociolinguistic taxonomy, ‘cookbook’, and immigrant communities

Abstract

This paper proposes a sociolinguistic taxonomy, called ‘cookbook,’

Članek obravnava sociolingvistično taksonomijo, imenovano ‘kuharska knjiga’, ki je bila izvedena na podlagi njenega dobesednega pomena in njene rabe v laboratoriju. ‘Kuharska knjiga’ poskuša hkrati kategorizirati govorca na mikro- in družbo na makroravni. To nam omogoča podajanje natančnejšega sociolingvističnega opisa dane skupnosti. Za prikaz, kako lahko ‘kuharska knjiga’ pojasni jezikovne variacije, sta predstavljena primera dveh študij – študija novega mesta in študija diaspore. which aims to account for highly diverse communities. The definition of this ‘cookbook’ was derived based on its literal meaning, its usage in laboratory situations. ‘Cookbook’ aims to categorise both the speaker at a micro level and society at a macro level at the same time. This will enable us to render more accurate sociolinguistic descriptions in a given community. As examples, two case studies (new town study and diaspora study) are introduced to show how ‘cookbook’ can explain the attested linguistic variation.