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THE HANDBOOK OF LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE
edited by
J. K. Chambers,
Peter Trudgill, and
Natalie Schilling-Estes
The
handbook of language variation and change
edited
by J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes
©
2002, 2004 Blackwell. First published in paperback 2004.
Blackwell,
Malden, MA, Oxford, and Garitón, Australia http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
xii +
807 pages
ISBN
0-631-21803-3 ISBN 1-4051-1692-7
“The
study of language variation and change, the core of the sociolinguistic
enterprise, has a relatively short history, but it is a burgeoning history, as
might be expected of an idea whose time had truly come or, indeed, was overdue.
This Handbook reflects the vitality and growth, representing the
discipline in its multifaceted pursuits. The chapters that follow are not
retrospective […]. Instead, we have
invited the authors of the chapters to discuss the ideas - hypotheses, axioms,
lemmata, premises, probabilities - that drive their branch of the discipline,
and to illustrate them with empirical studies, their own or others, that not
only demónstrate their applications but also their shortcomings and strengths.
The historical sequence will be implicit, we trust, if and when it has a
bearing on the ideas. [… The] exponential growth in the discipline gives the
Handbook a kind of utility that was previously not needed.” (From the editors’
introduction)
Introduction 1
Studying Language Variation: An
Informal Epistemology 3
J.K. CHAMBERS
Part I Methodologies 15
Field Methods
Introduction 17
NATALIE SCHILLING-ESTES
1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork 20
CRAWFORD FEAGIN
2 Language with an Attitude 40
DENNIS R. PRESTON
3 Investigating Variation and Change
in Written Documents 67
EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER
4 Inferring Variation and Change
from Public Corpora 97
LAURIE BAUER
Evaluation
Introduction 115
J.K. CHAMBERS
5 The Quantitative Paradigm 117
ROBERT BAYLEY
6 Implicational Scales 142
JOHN R. RlCKFORD
7 Instrumental
Phonetics ERIK R. THOMAS 168
Part II Linguistic Structure 201
Introduction 203
NATALIE
SCHILLING-ESTES
8 Variation and
Phonological Theory 206
ARTO ANTTILA
9 Investigating Chain
Shifts and Mergers 244
MATTHEW J. CORDÓN
10 Variation and
Syntactic Theory 267
ALISON HENRY
11 Discourse
Variation 283
RONALD MACAULAY
Part III Social Factors 307
Time 309
Introduction 309
NATALIE
SCHILLING-ESTES
12 Real and Apparent
Time 312
GUY BAILEY
13 Child Language
Variation 333
JULIE ROBERTS
14 Patterns of
Variation including Change 349
J. K. CHAMBERS
Social
Differentiation 373
Introduction 373
PETER TRUDGILL
15 Investigating
Stylistic Variation 375
NATALIE
SCHILLING-ESTES
16 Social Class 402
SHARON ASH
17 Sex and Gender in
Variationist Research 423
JENNY CHESHIRE
18 Ethnicity 444
CARMEN FOUGHT
DomainS
Introduction 473
PETER TRUDGILL
19 Language and
Identity 475
NORMA MENDOZA-DENTON
20 The Family
500
KIRK HAZEN
21 Communities of
Practice 526
MIRIAM MEYERHOFF
22 Social Networks 549
LESLEY MILROY
23 The Speech
Community 573
PETER L. PATRICK
Part IV Contact
Introduction 601
PETER TRUDGILL
24 Space and Spatial
Diffusion 603
DAVID BRITAIN
25 Linguistic
Outcomes of Language Contact 638
GILLIAN SANKOFF
26 Koineization and
Accommodation 669
PAUL KERSWILL
Part V Language and Societies
Introduction 705
J. K. CHAMBERS
27 Linguistic and
Social Typology 707
PETER TRUDGILL
28 Comparative
Sociolinguistics 729
SALI TAGLIAMONTE
29 Language Death and
Dying 764
WALT WOLFRAM
Index 788
© Círculo de Linguística
Aplicada a la Comunicación 21, February 2005. ISSN 1576-4737.
http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no21/change.htm