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The Handbook of Language Variation and Change.

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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 a...

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Author / Creator: Chambers, J. K.
Other Authors / Creators:Trudgill, Peter.
Schilling, Natalie.
Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2002.
Series:Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Ser.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Variation.
Linguistic change.
Sociolinguistics.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology
  • Part I. Methodologies:
  • Field Methods
  • Introduction
  • 1. Entering the Community: Field Work
  • 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:
  • 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:
  • Introduction
  • 24. Space and Spatial Diffusion
  • 25. Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact
  • 26. Koineization and Accommodation
  • Part V. Language and Societies:
  • Introduction
  • 27. Linguistic and Social Typology
  • 28. Comparative Sociolinguistics
  • 29. Language Death and Dying
  • Index

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