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Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language. * Represents the most up-to-date coverage of the history, developments, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics * Addresses all aspects of linguistic variation, including areas no...

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of systematic variation in language, both present and past. Tagliamonte, a leading and influential scholar in the field, provides a broad introduction to the foundational theory of Language Variation and Change, by synthesizing many of the early observations and findings that have shaped the field. She not only discusses the classic w...

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English's development.

Making Waves: The History of Variationist Sociolinguistics tells the human story of an academic field based on one-on-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Socioinguistics. It is a first person historiography, the narrative emerges chronologically in a compilation of events and developments that are interspersed with personal reminiscences taken directly from the audio-recorded interviews. Explanations of concepts,...

A comprehensive 'how to' guide to the practical analysis of language variation in a social context.

How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on a huge corpus of examples collected over a fifteen-year period, Sali A. Tagliamonte undertakes a detailed study of adolescents' language and argues that it acts as a 'bellwether' for the future of the English language. Teenagers are often accused of 'lowering the standard...

How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on a huge corpus of examples collected over a fifteen-year period, Sali A. Tagliamonte undertakes a detailed study of adolescents' language and argues that it acts as a 'bellwether' for the future of the English language. Teenagers are often accused of 'lowering the standard...

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. This is the first comprehensive how to guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation. Practical and informal, it shows in a step-by-step fashion how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a fully-fledged sociolinguistic investigation. Containing exercises, checklist...