The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Series)

Table of Contents

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

Contributors

Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology

 

Part I : Methodologies

Field Methods: Introduction

 

1. Entering the Community: Fieldwork

2. Language with an Attitude

3. Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents

4. Inferring Variation and Change from Public Corpora

 

Evaluation: Introduction

5. The Quantitative Paradigm

6. Implicational Scales

7. Instrumental Phonetics

 

Part II : Linguistic Structure

Linguistic Structure: Introduction

 

8. Variation and Phonological Theory

9. Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers

10. Variation and Syntactic Theory

11. Discourse Variation

 

Part III : Social Factors

Time: Introduction

 

12. Real and Apparent Time

13. Child Language Variation

14. Patterns of Variation including Change

 

Social Differentiation: Introduction

15. Investigating Stylistic Variation

16. Social Class

17. Sex and Gender in Variationist Research

18. Ethnicity

 

Domains: Introduction

19. Language and Identity

20. The Family

21. Communities of Practice

22. Social Networks

23. The Speech Community

 

Part IV : Contact

Contact: Introduction

 

24. Space and Spatial Diffusion

25. Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact

26. Koineization and Accommodation

 

Part V : Language and Societies

Language and Societies: Introduction

 

27. Linguistic and Social Typology

28. Comparative Sociolinguistics

29. Language Death and Dying

 

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