Ghada Khattab

Oct 30, 2024 | mdpi.com | Ourooba Shetewi |Karen Corrigan |Ghada Khattab

1. IntroductionSociolinguistic research has paid considerable attention to stylistic or intraspeaker variation, i.e., linguistic variation at the level of individual speakers in response to situational factors. Early work in this area was pioneered by William Labov (1966) and framed as attention to speech. Labov (1972, p. 112), for example, asserts that individuals are not monostylistic, suggesting that speech styles can be arranged on a continuum based on the speaker’s level of attention.