macroethnolinguistic
Macroethnolinguistics is a field of linguistics that studies language variation and change at broad population scales, focusing on how ethnicity, nationality, migration, and globalization shape language use, attitudes, and policy. It synthesizes methods and theory from sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, anthropology, and demography to analyze language in national, transnational, and diasporic contexts.
Core topics include language maintenance and shift among large communities, the roles of diglossia and standardization
Methods combine quantitative and qualitative approaches: large-scale surveys and censuses, corpus analysis of media and official
Relation to related fields: macroethnolinguistics sits at the crossroads of macro-sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, language policy, and migration
Limitations and criticisms include challenges in data comparability, isolating causal influences among many interacting factors, and