Participation in sociolinguistic research

Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since inception field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed issues surrounding participation those involved and engaged process. This paper aims reviewing state art outlining critical dimensions aspects with relation participation. We explore previous studies study designs help following questions: Who involved? How what impact stakeholders participated different strands sociolinguistic research? Current developments are presented reviewed particular reference language expertise outside academia, as manifested everyday talk about language, link between production this knowledge inequalities. point out that interconnectedness (in)equality can only be interpreted highly localised contexts, whose diverse understandings conceptualisations provide and, same time, limit possibilities transformation.