Making waves : the story of variationist sociolinguistics /

• Main Author: Tagliamonte, Sali (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley Blackwell, [2015].
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Language and languages > Variation.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.; Electronic books.

Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline. -An authentic, inside stor...

Table of Contents:

• Where It Begins
• Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics
• A Crescendo of Research
• Roots of Variationist Thinking
• Sociolinguistics in the Street
• Why Statistics in Your Head
• Sociolinguistics From the Heart
• Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams
• Why Do You Like Variation?
• Launching the Future
• Afterword
• Appendix A List of Interviews
• Appendix B VSLX Family Tree.