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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.

About the Author :
J.K. Chambers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and its Social Significance, Revised Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Dialectology, Second Edition (with P. Trudgill, 1998), as well as numerous other books and scores of articles. He works extensively as a forensic consultant and maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, including a volume on the bebop pianist Richard Twardzik (2008) and a prize-winning biography of Miles Davis, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (1998). Natalie Schilling is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of American English: Dialects and Variation, Third Edition (with W. Wolfram, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016) and Sociolinguistic Fieldwork (2013). An expert in language variation and change in American English, she conducts workshops on sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics for an array of audiences within and beyond academia, and is a noted consultant in both these fields. Among her works for general audiences is English in America: A Linguistic History, an audio-video lecture series for The Great Courses (2016).

Review :
"This is an addition to the invaluable 'Handbook' series from Blackwell and will be an essential purchase for anyone wishing to inform themselves about language variation and change ... Each chapter is an interesting read in its own right, and it really can be read from cover to cover ... It's a real achievement to maintain this level of excellence in a collection." British Association of Applied Linguistics "The Handbook of Language Variation and Change is a convenient, hand-held repository of the essential knowledge about the study of language variation and change. This Handbook allows the next generation of academics to perpetuate all of these fields of study and explore them with the kind of depth unimaginable to their predecessors." Folia Linguistica "The Handbook of Language Variation and Change is a long-awaited volume which aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the 'socio-linguistic enterprise ... in its multifaceted pursuits'. This is indeed a challenge, but one that the volume thoroughly meets: it is an authoritative guide, which provides an excellent contribution to the diverse field of variationist studies." Journal of Linguistics "Languages do not exist but in space and time. Their variability is what allows them to function as means of communication and social interaction. The present Handbook presents an up-to-date and in-depth account of how to study this aspect of language which is at the interface of historical linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics. The editors and contributing authors are among the most prolific scholars in the field. Their collective effort shows us how the versatility of 'real' situated speech can be made an object of rigorous scientific investigation and what can be learned from it about language and society." Florian Coulmas, Gerhard Mercator University "At last we have an authoritative place to go to discover the impressive accomplishments of the research on linguistic variation and change over the past forty years and to get a glimpse of the future. The editors of this Handbook have put together an excellent survey of what variationists do, produced by an admirable combination of scholars who helped found the field along with linguists from the next generation. This is an excellent volume. Buy it!" Ralph Fasold, Georgetown University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118335598
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 616
  • Weight: 1708 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1118335597
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Other digital
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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