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