The Handbook of Language Variation and Change

List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology: J.K.Chambers.
Part I: Methodologies:.
Field Methods.
Introduction: Natalie Schilling-Estes.
1. Entering the Community: Field Work: Crawford Feagin.
2. Language with an Attitude: Dennis Preston.
3. Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents:Edgar W. Schneider.
4. Inferring Variation and Change from Public Corpora: LaurieBauer.
Evaluation.
Introduction: J.K. Chambers.
5. The Quantitative Paradigm: Robert Bayley.
6. Implicational Scales: John R. Rickford.
7. Instrumental Phonetics: Erik R. Thomas.
Part II: Linguistic Structure:.
Introduction: Natalie Schilling-Estes.
8. Variation and Phonological Theory: Arto Anttila.
9. Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers: Matthew Gordon.
10. Variation and Syntactic Theory: Alison Henry.
11. Discourse Variation: Ronald Macaulay.
Part III: Social Factors:.
Time.
Introduction: Natalie Schilling-Estes.
12. Real and Apparent Time: Guy Bailey.
13. Child Language Variation: Julie Roberts.
14. Patterns of Variation, Including Change: J.K. Chambers.
Social Differentiation.
Introduction: Peter Trudgill.
15. Investigating Stylistic Variation: NatalieSchilling-Estes.
16. Social Class: Sharon Ash.
17. Sex and Gender in Variationist Research: Jenny Cheshire.
18. Ethnicity: Carmen Fought.
Domains.
Introduction: Peter Trudgill.
19. Language and Identity: Norma Mendoza-Denton.
20. The Family: Kirk Hazen.
21. Communities of Practice: Miriam Meyerhoff.
22. Social Networks: Lesley Milroy.
23. The Speech Community: Peter L. Patrick.
Part IV: Contact:.
Introduction: Peter Trudgill.
24. Space and Spatial Diffusion: David Britain.
25. Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact: GillianSankoff.
26. Koineization and Accommodation: Paul Kerswill.
Part V: Language and Societies:.
Introduction: J.K. Chambers.
27. Linguistic and Social Typology: Peter Trudgill.
28. Comparative Sociolinguistics: Sali Tagliamonte.
29. Language Death and Dying: Walt Wolfram.
Index