Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics: The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

Editors: Chambers, J. K., Trudgill, Peter and Schilling-Estes, Natalie
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers

Single-User Purchase Price: $205.00
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ISBN: 978-0-47-065994-6
Category: Language & Literature - Linguistics
Image Count: 80
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

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.

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Table of Contents

  • Endorsement
  • Contributors
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology
  • Part I Data Collection
  • 1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork
  • 2 Data in the Study of Variation and Change
  • 3 Investigating Historical Variation and Change in Written Documents: New Perspectives
  • Part II Evaluation
  • 4 The Quantitative Paradigm
  • 5 Sociophonetics
  • 6 Comparative Sociolinguistics
  • 7 Language with an Attitude
  • Part III Linguistic Structure
  • 8 Variation and Syntactic Theory
  • 9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers
  • 10 Discourse Variation
  • Part IV Language and Time
  • 11 Real Time and Apparent Time
  • 12 Child Language Variation
  • 13 Adolescence
  • 14 Patterns of Variation Including Change
  • Part V Social Differentiation
  • 15 Investigating Stylistic Variation
  • 16 Social Class
  • 17 Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities
  • 18 Ethnicity
  • Part VI Domains
  • 19 Social Networks
  • 20 Communities of Practice
  • 21 Constructing Identity
  • Part VII Contact
  • 22 Space, Diffusion and Mobility
  • 23 Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism
  • 24 Koineization
  • 25 Supraregionalisation and Dissociation
  • Part VIII Sociolinguists and Their Communities
  • 26 Community Commitment and Responsibility
  • Postscript