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Speaker Agency

Speaker Agency is a theoretical construct within the study of language maintenance that denotes the capacity of individual speakers to make intentional, strategic choices in language use, transmission, and identity negotiation within their speaker communities, thereby actively influencing language vitality and sociolinguistic outcomes.

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61

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43

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2017–2026

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Publications

37

Structure, Agency, and the Internal Conversation

John P. Hewitt · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2004 · 430 citations

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From Fetishism to Sincerity: On Agency, the Speaking Subject, and their Historicity in the Context of Religious Conversion

Webb Keane · Comparative Studies in Society and History · 1997 · 195 citations

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Pronominal choice, identity, and solidarity in political discourse

Anna De Fina · Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse · 1995 · 183 citations

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New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space

Bernadette O’Rourke, John Walsh · International Journal of the Sociology of Language · 2015 · 142 citations · Full text

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What Can Automation Tell Us About Agency?

Carolyn R. Miller · Rhetoric Society Quarterly · 2007 · 137 citations

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Authors

61

  1. JW
    John Walsh

    Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, Ireland

    2 publications · 160 citations

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  2. CB
    Christian Balkenius

    Lund University, Sweden

    1 publications · 20 citations

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  3. LF
    Lynd Forguson

    University of Toronto, Canada

    1 publications · 114 citations

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  4. JM
    J. M. E. Moravcsik

    Stanford University, United States

    1 publications · 114 citations

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  5. MJ
    Marianne Johansen

    Rigshospitalet, Denmark

    1 publications · 44 citations

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Institutions

43

  1. Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway

    Galway, Ireland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    160 citations

  2. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    49 citations

  3. College of Wooster

    Wooster, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  4. University of Notre Dame

    Notre Dame, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  5. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  6. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    195 citations

  7. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  8. Keele University

    Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    3 publications · 201 citations

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  2. System

    3 publications · 126 citations

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  3. Sociological Methods & Research

    SMR · 1 publications · 21 citations

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  4. Language and Education

    1 publications · 34 citations

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  5. Diachronica

    1 publications · 21 citations

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