Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics
Author:   Sali A. Tagliamonte (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 October 2015
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Author:   Sali A. Tagliamonte (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781118455166


ISBN 10:   1118455169
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface viii 1 Where It Begins 1 2 Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics 25 3 A Crescendo of Research 53 4 Roots of Variationist Thinking 74 5 Sociolinguistics in the Street 88 6 Why Statistics Is in Your Head 107 7 Sociolinguistics From the Heart 121 8 Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams 131 9 Why Do You Like Variation? 158 10 Launching the Future 169 Afterword 185 Appendix A List of Interviews 186 Appendix B VSLX Family Tree 187 References 194 Index 202

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Making waves is an interesting first attempt at writing the history of those that were inspired by Labov's groundbreaking work. One can only hope that more studies in this interesting area will follow. (Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 2016)


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Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is author of Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006) and Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), among other books and has published on African American varieties; British, Irish, and Canadian dialects; as well as child, teen, television, and Internet language.

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