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Author:   J. K. Chambers (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.084kg
ISBN:  

9780470659946

ISBN 10:   0470659947
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   16 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix List of Contributors xiii Preface to the Second Edition xv Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology 1 J.K. Chambers Part I Data Collection 17 1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork 19 Crawford Feagin 2 Data in the Study of Variation and Change 38 Tyler Kendall 3 Investigating Historical Variation and Change in Written Documents: New Perspectives 57 Edgar W. Schneider Part II Evaluation 83 4 The Quantitative Paradigm 85 Robert Bayley 5 Sociophonetics 108 Erik R. Thomas 6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 128 Sali A. Tagliamonte 7 Language with an Attitude 157 Dennis R. Preston Part III Linguistic Structure 183 8 Variation and Syntactic Theory 185 Ralph W. Fasold 9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers 203 Matthew J. Gordon 10 Discourse Variation 220 Ronald Macaulay Part IV Language and Time 237 11 Real Time and Apparent Time 239 Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey 12 Child Language Variation 263 Julie Roberts 13 Adolescence 277 Sam Kirkham and Emma Moore 14 Patterns of Variation including Change 297 J.K. Chambers Part V Social Differentiation 325 15 Investigating Stylistic Variation 327 Natalie Schilling 16 Social Class 350 Sharon Ash 17 Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities 368 Robin Queen 18 Ethnicity 388 Carmen Fought Part VI Domains 407 19 Social Networks 409 Lesley Milroy and Carmen Llamas 20 Communities of Practice 428 Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz 21 Constructing Identity 448 Scott F. Kiesling Part VII Contact 469 22 Space, Diffusion and Mobility 471 David Britain 23 Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism 501 Gillian Sankoff 24 Koineization 519 Paul Kerswill 25 Supraregionalisation and Dissociation 537 Raymond Hickey Part VIII Sociolinguists and Their Communities 555 26 Community Commitment and Responsibility 557 Walt Wolfram Postscript 577 Natalie Schilling and Jack Chambers Index 579

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This second edition of a handbook first published in 2002 under the same title is a rich and diversified volume, and a welcome update. (.Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 July 2015)

This second edition of a handbook first published in 2002 under the same title is a rich and diversified volume, and a welcome update. (.Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 July 2015)

This second edition of a handbook first published in 2002 under the same title is a rich and diversified volume, and a welcome update. (.Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 July 2015)

“This second edition of a handbook first published in 2002 under the same title is a rich and diversified volume, and a welcome update.”  (.Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 July 2015)

Author Information

J. K. Chambers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and its Social Significance, Revised Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Dialectology, Second Edition (with P. Trudgill, 1998), as well as numerous other books and scores of articles. He works extensively as a forensic consultant and maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, having published a prize-winning biography of Miles Davis, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (1998) and a volume on the bebop pianist Richard Twardzik (2008). Natalie Schilling is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of American English: Dialects and Variation, Second Edition (with W. Wolfram, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (with K. King, L. Fogle, J. J. Lou, and B. Soukup, 2008), and Sociolinguistic Fieldwork (2013). An expert in language variation and change in American English, she conducts workshops on sociolinguistics and education, as well as forensic linguistics, and is a noted consultant in both these fields.

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