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The main theme of my research concerns social differentiation and how social meaning is mapped onto linguistic variation via social practices. I address how social differentiation and categorization are achieved by exploring tensions with salience and awareness of linguistic features. I focus on how metapragmatic commentary discursively circulates language ideologies, and how these ideologies manifest in the variation of key features. These processes ultimately inform theoretical conceptualizations of salience of linguistic forms that contribute to understandings of speakers’ lived experience with language. I tend to focus on linguistic communities and features that are ambiguous or do not neatly follow conventional categorization.