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Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics.

Trade Review

“This second edition of a handbook first published in 2002 under the same title is a rich and diversified volume, and a welcome update.” (.Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 July 2015)



Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

List of Contributors xiii

Preface to the Second Edition xv

Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology 1
J.K. Chambers

Part I Data Collection 17

1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork 19
Crawford Feagin

2 Data in the Study of Variation and Change 38
Tyler Kendall

3 Investigating Historical Variation and Change in Written Documents: New Perspectives 57
Edgar W. Schneider

Part II Evaluation 83

4 The Quantitative Paradigm 85
Robert Bayley

5 Sociophonetics 108
Erik R. Thomas

6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 128
Sali A. Tagliamonte

7 Language with an Attitude 157
Dennis R. Preston

Part III Linguistic Structure 183

8 Variation and Syntactic Theory 185
Ralph W. Fasold

9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers 203
Matthew J. Gordon

10 Discourse Variation 220
Ronald Macaulay

Part IV Language and Time 237

11 Real Time and Apparent Time 239
Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey

12 Child Language Variation 263
Julie Roberts

13 Adolescence 277
Sam Kirkham and Emma Moore

14 Patterns of Variation including Change 297
J.K. Chambers

Part V Social Differentiation 325

15 Investigating Stylistic Variation 327
Natalie Schilling

16 Social Class 350
Sharon Ash

17 Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities 368
Robin Queen

18 Ethnicity 388
Carmen Fought

Part VI Domains 407

19 Social Networks 409
Lesley Milroy and Carmen Llamas

20 Communities of Practice 428
Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz

21 Constructing Identity 448
Scott F. Kiesling

Part VII Contact 469

22 Space, Diffusion and Mobility 471
David Britain

23 Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism 501
Gillian Sankoff

24 Koineization 519
Paul Kerswill

25 Supraregionalisation and Dissociation 537
Raymond Hickey

Part VIII Sociolinguists and Their Communities 555

26 Community Commitment and Responsibility 557
Walt Wolfram

Postscript 577
Natalie Schilling and Jack Chambers

Index 579

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 16/08/2013
      ISBN13: 9780470659946, 978-0470659946
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics.

      Trade Review

      “This second edition of a handbook first published in 2002 under the same title is a rich and diversified volume, and a welcome update.” (.Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 July 2015)



      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations ix

      List of Contributors xiii

      Preface to the Second Edition xv

      Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology 1
      J.K. Chambers

      Part I Data Collection 17

      1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork 19
      Crawford Feagin

      2 Data in the Study of Variation and Change 38
      Tyler Kendall

      3 Investigating Historical Variation and Change in Written Documents: New Perspectives 57
      Edgar W. Schneider

      Part II Evaluation 83

      4 The Quantitative Paradigm 85
      Robert Bayley

      5 Sociophonetics 108
      Erik R. Thomas

      6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 128
      Sali A. Tagliamonte

      7 Language with an Attitude 157
      Dennis R. Preston

      Part III Linguistic Structure 183

      8 Variation and Syntactic Theory 185
      Ralph W. Fasold

      9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers 203
      Matthew J. Gordon

      10 Discourse Variation 220
      Ronald Macaulay

      Part IV Language and Time 237

      11 Real Time and Apparent Time 239
      Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey

      12 Child Language Variation 263
      Julie Roberts

      13 Adolescence 277
      Sam Kirkham and Emma Moore

      14 Patterns of Variation including Change 297
      J.K. Chambers

      Part V Social Differentiation 325

      15 Investigating Stylistic Variation 327
      Natalie Schilling

      16 Social Class 350
      Sharon Ash

      17 Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities 368
      Robin Queen

      18 Ethnicity 388
      Carmen Fought

      Part VI Domains 407

      19 Social Networks 409
      Lesley Milroy and Carmen Llamas

      20 Communities of Practice 428
      Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz

      21 Constructing Identity 448
      Scott F. Kiesling

      Part VII Contact 469

      22 Space, Diffusion and Mobility 471
      David Britain

      23 Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism 501
      Gillian Sankoff

      24 Koineization 519
      Paul Kerswill

      25 Supraregionalisation and Dissociation 537
      Raymond Hickey

      Part VIII Sociolinguists and Their Communities 555

      26 Community Commitment and Responsibility 557
      Walt Wolfram

      Postscript 577
      Natalie Schilling and Jack Chambers

      Index 579

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