In this commentary we respond to the articles of this special issue focusing on the proposal for a sociolinguistics of diaspora. We discuss especially whether diaspora as conceptualized in the articles helps sociolinguists better understand the intersection of migration, globalization, and language. Central to our comments is the question of whether the concept of diaspora is operationalized clearly enough to do the metalinguistic job it is invoked to do.

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评论：侨民的社会语言学

在这篇评论中，我们回应了本期特刊的文章，重点关注散居者社会语言学的建议。我们特别讨论了文章中概念化的侨民是否有助于社会语言学家更好地理解移民、全球化和语言的交叉点。我们评论的核心是散居的概念是否被清楚地操作化以完成它被调用的元语言工作的问题。