In this commentary, I offer a review of how sociolinguistic scales featured in the development of my own work over the past decade. Scales, I explain, were always indispensable as an imaginative concept allowing a reimagination of sociolinguistic facts, but the concept of scales was never sufficient to adequately address this reimagined reality. I illustrate this point by means of an account of how scales helped me address three fundamental problems: the problem of meaning, that of situatedness, and that of indexicality.

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回顾社会语言量表

在这篇评论中，我回顾了过去十年来我自己的作品发展过程中社会语言量表的特点。我解释说，比例尺始终是必不可少的，它是一个具有想象力的概念，可以对社会语言事实进行重新构想，但是比例尺的概念永远不足以充分解决这个重新构想的现实。我通过说明规模如何帮助我解决三个基本问题来说明这一点：意义问题，位置问题和索引性问题。