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The third chapter includes how to do citizen sociolinguistics, emphasising that the medium of the conversation creates the method for citizen sociolinguistics. These first two chapters comprise many vivid, strong, and fine-grained examples of the ways people do sociolinguistic work, their ‘arrests’ and their ‘wonderments’, as well as their (implicit) social valuation of language, predominantly in online fora contextualised in the United States. 29), whereas ‘citizen sociolinguistic wonderment’ is defined as ‘a blend of admiration and awe (sometimes touched with silliness, fear, or scepticism) regarding ways of speaking’ (p. The ‘citizen sociolinguist's arrest’ is defined as ‘the act of calling someone out for their use of language, maybe with a hint of moral censure’ (p. ‘citizen sociolinguist's arrest’ and ‘wonderment’, which are further discussed as particularly fruitful events to tap into the understanding of the sociolinguistic work of citizens. In the first and second chapters, two speech events are introduced viz. Following this definition, lay people do not have to be engaged in the scientific research process as such, nor collaborating with scientific researchers to become a ‘citizen sociolinguist’ (for a discussion, cf. In this sense, the layperson becomes the citizen sociolinguist and analyst when they make comments on everyday language.
5), and later elaborated as ‘the work people do to make sense of everyday communication and share their sense-making with others’ (p. In the introduction, citizen sociolinguistics is defined in line with Rymes and Leone ( 2014) as ‘the study of the world of language and communication by the people who use it’ (p. The book consists of six chapters, as well as an introduction and a conclusion. Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics is indeed a very timely book.
In Europe, CS is highlighted in the new EU research framework 9, Horizon Europe, succeeding Horizon 2020, and the European Commission recently recognised CS as an open science priority (European Commission, 2019, 2020). (Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science 2021). The US National Science Foundation supports many CS initiatives, and the US government runs the Federal Community of Practice on Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science, with the purpose ‘of enhancing agency mission, scientific, and societal outcomes’ Further, research politically there is a growing emphasis on CS. Alongside the recent blooming of various CS studies, there has been an increase in CS associations, networks, toolkits and CS labs (e.g., Australian Citizen Science Association 2021 Citizen Science Lab-Leiden University 2021 Citizen Science Association 2021 European Citizen Science Association 2021 Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit 2021). In the research literature, there are a diversity of definitions of CS, but they all involve the engagement of nonprofessionals in scientific research (Dickinson et al., 2012 Golumbic et al., 2017) where the level of involvement varies according to the specific CS initiative (for a typology of CS studies, cf. In recent years, CS has transformed and gained momentum in a wide range of scientific disciplines (e.g., Kullenberg & Kasperowski, 2016), including sociolinguistics (e.g., Agostini et al., 2019 Rymes & Leone, 2014 Rymes et al., 2017 SturtzSreetharan et al., 2019 Svendsen 2018, cf. 3–24) dating back to Linné’s engagement of lay people in his work on the typology of animals and plants in the mid-18th century (Kasperowski & Hillman, 2018). The term ‘citizen sociolinguistics’ is an analogy introduced by Rymes and Leone ( 2014) and further developed in this book, calqued on the long tradition of CS in natural sciences (cf.
The aim of the book is to provide ‘the intellectual and practical tools we need to analyze how people talk about language, how we can participate in those conversations, and what we can learn from them about language and our society’ (blurb). In this book, Rymes advances the epistemological turn in sociolinguistics towards greater citizen involvement in research, embracing citizen science (CS) methods or citizen sociolinguistics and lay people's sociolinguistic expertise in exploring and understanding the role of language in social life.
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