Сравнение методов

	Variationist Sociolinguistics	Corpus Concordance Analysis
Область	Лингвистика	Лингвистика
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Год появления	1972	1991
Автор метода	William Labov	Corpus linguists (John Sinclair; Paul Baker)
Тип	Quantitative field study of socially conditioned linguistic variation	Corpus-based descriptive analysis of word usage in context
Основополагающий источник	Labov, W. (1972). Sociolinguistic Patterns. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 9780812210521	Baker, P. (2006). Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. Continuum. ISBN: 9780826477248
Другие названия	Variationist Analysis, Labovian Sociolinguistics, Quantitative Sociolinguistics	Concordance Analysis, KWIC Analysis, Keyword-in-Context Analysis
Связанные	4	4
Сводка	Variationist sociolinguistics is the quantitative study of how linguistic variation is structured by social and linguistic factors. Pioneered by William Labov in the 1960s and 1970s, it treats alternative ways of saying the same thing — the 'linguistic variable' — as systematically conditioned by speaker characteristics (class, age, sex, ethnicity), stylistic context, and the surrounding linguistic environment, and it uses statistical modeling of natural speech to reveal the orderly heterogeneity beneath apparent randomness.	Corpus concordance analysis is a core corpus-linguistic technique that retrieves every occurrence of a search word or phrase from a large body of machine-readable text and displays them in keyword-in-context (KWIC) format — the target term aligned in a central column with its surrounding co-text. By reading and sorting these lines, analysts uncover the recurrent patterns, collocations, and meanings of words as they are actually used, grounding linguistic claims in attested evidence rather than introspection.