The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

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. A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its unrivalled scope and depth of analysis in this interdisciplinary field Includes seven new chapters, while the remainder have undergone thorough revision and updating to incorporate the latest research and reflect numerous developments in the field Accessibly structured by theme, covering topics including data collection and evaluation, linguistic structure, language and time, language contact, language domains, and social differentiation Brings together an experienced, international editorial and contributor team to provides an unrivalled learning, teaching and reference tool for researchers and students in sociolinguistics

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.* A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its unrivalled scope and depth of analysis in this interdisciplinary field* Includes seven new chapters, while the remainder have undergone thorough revision and updating to incorporate the latest research and reflect numerous developments in the field* Accessibly structured by theme, covering topics including data collection and evaluation, linguistic structure, language and time, language contact, language domains, and social differentiation* Brings together an experienced, international editorial and contributor team to provides an unrivalled learning, teaching and reference tool for researchers and students in sociolinguistics

List of Illustrations ixList of Contributors xiiiPreface to the Second Edition xvStudying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology 1J.K. ChambersPart I Data Collection 171 Entering the Community: Fieldwork 19Crawford Feagin2 Data in the Study of Variation and Change 38Tyler Kendall3 Investigating Historical Variation and Change in Written Documents: New Perspectives 57Edgar W. SchneiderPart II Evaluation 834 The Quantitative Paradigm 85Robert Bayley5 Sociophonetics 108Erik R. Thomas6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 128Sali A. Tagliamonte7 Language with an Attitude 157Dennis R. PrestonPart III Linguistic Structure 1838 Variation and Syntactic Theory 185Ralph W. Fasold9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers 203Matthew J. Gordon10 Discourse Variation 220Ronald MacaulayPart IV Language and Time 23711 Real Time and Apparent Time 239Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey12 Child Language Variation 263Julie Roberts13 Adolescence 277Sam Kirkham and Emma Moore14 Patterns of Variation including Change 297J.K. ChambersPart V Social Differentiation 32515 Investigating Stylistic Variation 327Natalie Schilling16 Social Class 350Sharon Ash17 Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities 368Robin Queen18 Ethnicity 388Carmen FoughtPart VI Domains 40719 Social Networks 409Lesley Milroy and Carmen Llamas20 Communities of Practice 428Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz21 Constructing Identity 448Scott F. KieslingPart VII Contact 46922 Space, Diffusion and Mobility 471David Britain23 Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism 501Gillian Sankoff24 Koineization 519Paul Kerswill25 Supraregionalisation and Dissociation 537Raymond HickeyPart VIII Sociolinguists and Their Communities 55526 Community Commitment and Responsibility 557Walt WolframPostscript 577Natalie Schilling and Jack ChambersIndex 579