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 Feagin
Chapter 2 Language with an Attitude (pages 39–66): Dennis R. Preston
Chapter 3 Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents (pages 67–96): Edgar W. Schneider
Chapter 4 Inferring Variation and Change from Public Corpora (pages 97–114): Laurie Bauer
Chapter 5 The Quantitative Paradigm (pages 117–141): Robert Bayley
Chapter 6 Implicational Scales (pages 142–167): John R. Rickford
Chapter 7 Instrumental Phonetics (pages 168–200): Erik R. Thomas
Chapter 8 Variation and Phonological Theory (pages 206–243): Arto Anttila
Chapter 9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers (pages 244–266): Matthew J. Gordon
Chapter 10 Variation and Syntactic Theory (pages 267–282): Alison Henry
Chapter 11 Discourse Variation (pages 283–305): Ronald Macaulay
Chapter 12 Real and Apparent Time (pages 312–332): Guy Bailey
Chapter 13 Child Language Variation (pages 318–333): Julie Roberts
Chapter 14 Patterns of Variation including Change (pages 349–372): J. K. Chambers
Chapter 15 Investigating Stylistic Variation (pages 375–401): Natalie Schilling?Estes
Chapter 16 Social Class (pages 402–422): Sharon Ash
Chapter 17 Sex and Gender in Variationist Research (pages 423–443): Jenny Cheshire
Chapter 18 Ethnicity (pages 444–472): Carmen Fought
Chapter 19 Language and Identity (pages 475–499): Norma Mendoza?Denton
Chapter 20 The Family (pages 500–525): Kirk Hazen
Chapter 21 Communities of Practice (pages 526–548): Miriam Meyerhoff
Chapter 22 Social Networks (pages 549–572): Lesley Milroy
Chapter 23 The Speech Community (pages 573–597): Peter L. Patrick
Chapter 24 Space and Spatial Diffusion (pages 603–637): David Britain
Chapter 25 Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact (pages 638–668): Gillian Sankoff
Chapter 26 Koineization and Accommodation (pages 669–702): Paul Kerswill
Chapter 27 Linguistic and Social Typology (pages 707–728): Peter Trudgill
Chapter 28 Comparative Sociolinguistics (pages 729–763): Sali Tagliamonte
Chapter 29 Language Death and Dying (pages 764–787): Walt Wolfram