Expanding Variationist Sociolinguistic Research in Varieties of German

List of contributors
Foreword - Sali A. Tagliamonte
Acknowledgements

1. Variationist sociolinguistics: theoretical and methodological foundations

James M. Stratton and Karen V. Beaman

PART I: Bridging German dialectology and variationist sociolinguistics

2. The social versus the regional: a multivariate analysis of (morpho-)syntactic variation in Austria's rural dialects

Philip C. Vergeiner, Lars Buelow, and Stephan Elspass

3. Dialect maintenance in German Alemannic and the role of pro-Alsatian attitudes and orientations

Peter Auer, Martin Pfeiffer, Goez Kaufmann, and Julia Breuninger

4. Sociolinguistic variation in a non-native variety of Swiss German: Romansh migrants in the city of Berne

Andrin Buechler

PART II : Diving into social-discursive functions

5. Fei schee: the social meaning of intensifier use in Swabian

James M. Stratton and Karen V. Beaman

6. Subjunctive and diminutive use as politeness strategies in German in Austria: comparative evidence from sociolinguistic interviews and conversations among friends

Katharina Korecky-Kroell and Anja Wittibschlager

7. A socio-stylistic analysis of variation in support verb constructions in a corpus of spoken German

Colleen Neary-Sundquist and John D. Sundquist

8. Sociolinguistic variation in German: the case of the modal particles halt and eben

Oliver Bunk, Antje Sauermann, and Fynn Raphael Dobler

PART III: Merging historical and sociolinguistic perspectives

9. Variation in an Austrian winegrower's 19th-century chronicle

Anna D. Havinga and Simon Pickl

10. Socio-historical data and the need for representative historical corpora

Katrin Fuchs

Afterword

Index