{"product_id":"making-waves-9781118455432","title":"Making Waves","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...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. \u003ci\u003eMaking Waves\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" - \u003ci\u003eLINGUIST List, September 2016\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Where It Begins 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Crescendo of Research 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Roots of Variationist Thinking 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Sociolinguistics in the Street 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Why Statistics Is in Your Head 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Sociolinguistics From the Heart 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Why Do You Like Variation? 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Launching the Future 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A List of Interviews 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B VSLX Family Tree 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 202\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406873272663,"sku":"9781118455432","price":45.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118455432.jpg?v=1730497405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-waves-9781118455432","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}