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A Language ideology is the patterns that guides a speaker's use of language (and thus change it).

A Language ideology is the shared bodies of commonsense notions about the nature of language in the world.

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A Local linguistic community is a multiglossic social space in which people made pragmatic language choices reflecting crosscutting priorities.

Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to have intuitions about the meaning and use of linguistic expressions.

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Nonreferential indexicality is the 'features of speech independent of any referential speech event' that point to the 'sociological relations of personae in the speech situation' and 'accomplish socially constituted ends'.

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