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The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

J. K. Chambers (Editor), Peter Trudgill (Editor), Natalie Schilling (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-75650-8
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April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.

Introduction.

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

Part I: Methodologies:.

Field Methods.

Introduction: Natalie Schilling-Estes.

1. Entering the Community: Field Work: Crawford Feagin.

2. Language with an Attitude: Dennis Preston.

3. Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents: Edgar W. Schneider.

4. Inferring Variation and Change from Public Corpora: Laurie Bauer.

Evaluation.

Introduction: J.K. Chambers.

5. The Quantitative Paradigm: Robert Bayley.

6. Implicational Scales: John R. Rickford.

7. Instrumental Phonetics: Erik R. Thomas.

Part II: Linguistic Structure:.

Introduction: Natalie Schilling-Estes.

8. Variation and Phonological Theory: Arto Anttila.

9. Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers: Matthew Gordon.

10. Variation and Syntactic Theory: Alison Henry.

11. Discourse Variation: Ronald Macaulay.

Part III: Social Factors:.

Time.

Introduction: Natalie Schilling-Estes.

12. Real and Apparent Time: Guy Bailey.

13. Child Language Variation: Julie Roberts.

14. Patterns of Variation, Including Change: J.K. Chambers.

Social Differentiation.

Introduction: Peter Trudgill.

15. Investigating Stylistic Variation: Natalie Schilling-Estes.

16. Social Class: Sharon Ash.

17. Sex and Gender in Variationist Research: Jenny Cheshire.

18. Ethnicity: Carmen Fought.

Domains.

Introduction: Peter Trudgill.

19. Language and Identity: Norma Mendoza-Denton.

20. The Family: Kirk Hazen.

21. Communities of Practice: Miriam Meyerhoff.

22. Social Networks: Lesley Milroy.

23. The Speech Community: Peter L. Patrick.

Part IV: Contact:.

Introduction: Peter Trudgill.

24. Space and Spatial Diffusion: David Britain.

25. Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact: Gillian Sankoff.

26. Koineization and Accommodation: Paul Kerswill.

Part V: Language and Societies:.

Introduction: J.K. Chambers.

27. Linguistic and Social Typology: Peter Trudgill.

28. Comparative Sociolinguistics: Sali Tagliamonte.

29. Language Death and Dying: Walt Wolfram.

Index