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Influenced by new constructivist social theories and responding to so-called post-1960s late-modernity social changes, some branches of sociolinguistics have embraced a dynamic study of language and identity to see how identity is discursively constructed through individual choices of speech. Nikolas Coupland comments with the following words:
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Zhou, F. (2020). Bucholtz and Hall: System and Identity. In: Models of the Human in Twentieth-Century Linguistic Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1255-1_6
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