Description
Book SynopsisMaking Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline.
Trade Review"...a useful introduction to some of the major theoretical tenets of the field...for undergraduates just beginning to wade into sociolinguistics who are looking for an accessible path towards some of the discipline’s theoretical underpinnings.
Making Waves provides an important and useful form of documentation for how sociolinguistics has grown so rapidly over the past five decades and where variationist sociolinguistics in particular seems to be heading in the years to come." -
LINGUIST List, September 2016Table of ContentsPreface viii
1 Where It Begins 1
2 Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics 25
3 A Crescendo of Research 53
4 Roots of Variationist Thinking 74
5 Sociolinguistics in the Street 88
6 Why Statistics Is in Your Head 107
7 Sociolinguistics From the Heart 121
8 Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams 131
9 Why Do You Like Variation? 158
10 Launching the Future 169
Afterword 185
Appendix A List of Interviews 186
Appendix B VSLX Family Tree 187
References 194
Index 202
