The Handbook of Language Variation and Change 2e

The Handbook of Language Variation and Change builds, in its second edition, upon the successful foundation of the first. The sections have been expanded from five to eight, including revised sections on Language and Time, and Social Differentiation. Most chapters from the first edition have been updated, with new chapters on topics including Data Storage and Processing, Gender, Sex, and Sexual Identities, Adolescence, and Variation and Syntactic Theory. The Handbook has been a foundational reference work in sociolinguistics and linguistics, and the new edition expands its coverage and brings its research up-to-date in this fast-moving field.