The Handbook of language variation and change - Chambers, J.K.; Trudgill, Peter; Schilling-Estes, Natalie (Malden, Mass. Blackwell Pub., 2004)
Studying language variation : an informal epistemology / J.K. Chambers -- Part I : methodologies. Field methods. Introduction / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- Entering the community : fieldwork / Crawford Feagin -- Language with an attitude / Dennis R. Preston -- Investigating variation and change in written documents / Edgar W. Schneider -- Infering variation and change from public corpora / Laurie Bauer -- Evaluation. Introduction / J.K. Chambers -- The quantitative paradigm / Robert Bayley -- Implicational scales / John R. Rickford -- Instrumental phonetics / Erik R. Thomas -- Part II : linguistic structure. Introduction / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- Variation and phonological theory / Arto Anttila -- Investigating chain shifts and mergers / Matthew J. Gordon -- Variation and syntactic theory / Alison Henry -- Discourse variation / Ronald Macaulay -- Part III : social factors. Time. Introduction / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- Real and apparent time / Guy Bailey -- Child language variation / Julie Roberts -- Patterns of variation including change / J.K. Chambers -- Social differentiation. Introduction / Peter Trudgill -- Investigating stylistic variation / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- Social class / Sharon Ash -- Sex and gender in variationist research / Jenny Cheshire -- Ethnicity / Carmen Fought -- Domains. Introduction / Peter Trudgill -- Language and identity / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- The family / Kirk Hazen -- Communities of practice / Miriam Meyerhoff -- Social networks / Lesley Milroy -- The speech community / Peter L. Patrick -- Part IV : contact. Introduction / Peter Trudgill -- Space and spatial diffusion / David Britain -- Linguistic outcomes of language contact / Gillian Sankoff -- Koineization and accommodation / Paul Kerswill -- Part V : language and societies. Introduction / J.K. Chambers -- Linguistic and social typology / Peter Trudgill -- Comparative sociolinguistics / Sali Tagliamonte -- Language death and dying / Walt Wolfram.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Language and languages -- Variation; Linguistic change; Sociolinguistics