The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline in its multifaceted pursuits. It is a convenient, hand-held repository of the essential knowledge about the study of language variation and change. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field. Reflects the vitality and growth of the discipline. Discusses the ideas that drive the field and is illustrated with empirical studies. Includes explanatory introductions which set out the boundaries of the field and place each of the chapters into perspective. Content: Chapter 1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork (pages 20–39): Crawford FeaginChapter 2 Language with an Attitude (pages 39–66): Dennis R. PrestonChapter 3 Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents (pages 67–96): Edgar W. SchneiderChapter 4 Inferring Variation and Change from Public Corpora (pages 97–114): Laurie BauerChapter 5 The Quantitative Paradigm (pages 117–141): Robert BayleyChapter 6 Implicational Scales (pages 142–167): John R. RickfordChapter 7 Instrumental Phonetics (pages 168–200): Erik R. ThomasChapter 8 Variation and Phonological Theory (pages 206–243): Arto AnttilaChapter 9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers (pages 244–266): Matthew J. GordonChapter 10 Variation and Syntactic Theory (pages 267–282): Alison HenryChapter 11 Discourse Variation (pages 283–305): Ronald MacaulayChapter 12 Real and Apparent Time (pages 312–332): Guy BaileyChapter 13 Child Language Variation (pages 318–333): Julie RobertsChapter 14 Patterns of Variation including Change (pages 349–372): J. K. ChambersChapter 15 Investigating Stylistic Variation (pages 375–401): Natalie Schilling?EstesChapter 16 Social Class (pages 402–422): Sharon AshChapter 17 Sex and Gender in Variationist Research (pages 423–443): Jenny CheshireChapter 18 Ethnicity (pages 444–472): Carmen FoughtChapter 19 Language and Identity (pages 475–499): Norma Mendoza?DentonChapter 20 The Family (pages 500–525): Kirk HazenChapter 21 Communities of Practice (pages 526–548): Miriam MeyerhoffChapter 22 Social Networks (pages 549–572): Lesley MilroyChapter 23 The Speech Community (pages 573–597): Peter L. PatrickChapter 24 Space and Spatial Diffusion (pages 603–637): David BritainChapter 25 Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact (pages 638–668): Gillian SankoffChapter 26 Koineization and Accommodation (pages 669–702): Paul KerswillChapter 27 Linguistic and Social Typology (pages 707–728): Peter TrudgillChapter 28 Comparative Sociolinguistics (pages 729–763): Sali TagliamonteChapter 29 Language Death and Dying (pages 764–787): Walt Wolfram