Review article of Laura Wright, The Social Life of Words (2023)
Nicholas Lo Vecchio. 2024. Review article of Laura Wright, The Social Life of Words (2023). Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/11p8j
This article enthusiastically reviews the book The Social Life of Words by Laura Wright, posing questions about why lexicology has been understudied in Anglophone sociolinguistic traditions in particular.
Keywords: lexical sociolinguistics, textual sociolinguistics, sociolexicology, lexical variation
Nicholas Lo Vecchio. 2024. Compte rendu de Laura Wright, The Social Life of Words (2023). Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/11p8j
Ce compte rendu propose une lecture enthousiaste du livre The Social Life of Words de Laura Wright, en se posant la question de savoir pourquoi la lexicologie a jusqu’ici suscité moins d’intérêt notamment dans la sociolinguistique anglophone.
Mots-clés: sociolinguistique lexicale, sociolinguistique textuelle, sociolexicologie, variation lexicale