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 not usually covered in introductory texts, e.g. the phonological, morpho-syntactic, discourse/pragmatic
- Outlines comparative sociolinguistic approach, data collection, methodological issues; and addresses state-of-the-art contemporary quantitative methods and statistical practice
- Features cutting-edge research at an appropriate level to facilitate student learning
- Engages students throughout with a variety of pedagogical features, including Mini Quizzes to test comprehension, extensive Exercises at the end of each chapter, the opportunity to do hands-on quantitative analysis of a never-before published data set, and Notes and Tips that offer insight into conducting sociolinguistic research. Extra materials and answers to the exercises are available at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte
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The author's aims of introducing the field of LVC to learners, discussing its principle goals and achievements, and opening up discussion for advances in the field have been successfully achieved in this volume. (LINGUIST, 16 May 2012) Featured on CBC Radio One's Ontario Today (17th October), http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2011/10/17/tuesday-northern-and-southern-expressions/#socialcomments
Acknowledgments x Foreword xii Series Editor s Preface xiii
Preface xiv List of Figures xvii List of Tables xx 1
Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change 1 Sociolinguistics 1
The Linguistic Variable 3 Linguistic Change 8 The Principle of
Accountability 9 Circumscribing the Variable Context 10 Evolution of
the Linguistic Variable 15 The Importance of Accountability 19 Language
Variation and Change and Linguistic Theory 21 Exercises 22 2 Social
Patterns 25 Social Class 25 Sex (or Gender) 32 Style and Register 34
Mobility in Space and Mobility in Class 35 Social Network, Communities
of Practice 36 Ethnicity and Culture 38 The Mass Media 41 Age 43
Types of Change 56 Principles of Linguistic Change 62 Summary 65
Exercises 66 3 Linguistic Patterns 71 Sound Change 74 Morphological
Change 76 Syntactic Change 80 Semantic Change 84 Grammaticalization
87 Lexical Effects 91 Exemplar Theory 94 Exercises 97 4 Data and
Method 100 The Speech Community 100 Corpus Building 101 Creating
Sociolinguistic Corpora 102 The Individual and the Group 108
Constructing an LVC Study 110 Research Ethics 115 The Gold Your
Data 116 The Real World 117 5 Quantitative Analysis 120 The
Quantitative Paradigm 120 Distributional Analysis 121 Statistical
Modeling 121 The Three Lines of Evidence 122 The Case Study
Variable (that) 124 Goldvarb Logistic Regression 126 Challenging the
Variable Rule Program 129 Drawbacks to the Variable Rule Program 137
New Toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics 138 Summary 156
Exercises 157 6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 162 Comparison 162 The
Comparative Method 163 Comparison in Origins 165 Comparison in Language
Contact 166 Standards for Comparison 167 Variable (did) 168
Exercises 173 7 Phonological Variables 177 Variable (t,d) 179
Variable (ing) 187 Tips for Studying Phonological Variables 195
Exercises 203 8 Morpho-Syntactic Variables 206 Verbal (s) 207 Adverb
(ly) 217 Modal (have to) 228 Studying Morpho-Syntactic Variables 235
Exercises 241 9 Discourse/Pragmatic Features 247 Quotative (be like)
247 General Extenders 258 Studying the Discourse/Pragmatic Variable 269
Exercises 277 10 Tense/Aspect Variables 279 Grammaticalization and
Tense/Aspect Variables 280 Future (going to) 281 Perfect (have) 296
Studying Tense/Aspect Variables 308 Exercises 311 11 Other Variables
314 Variable (come) 315 Variable (Intensifiers) 320 Language and the
Internet 336 Studying Unusual Variables 342 Exercises 345 12
Sociolinguistic Explanations 349 What Are the Constraints on Change? 349
How Does Language Change? 350 How Is a Change Embedded in Social and
Linguistic Systems? 350 Evaluation of a Change 351 Statistical Modeling
353 Traditional Explanations 354 The Principle of Interaction 355
Appendix A: Corpora Cited 358 Appendix B: Time Periods in the History of
English 359 References 360 Subject Index 392 Index of Linguistic
Variables 400
Sali A. T agliamonte is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is author of Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006), co-author of African American English in the Diaspora: Tense and Aspect (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), and has published on African American varieties; British, Irish, and Canadian dialects; as well as child, teen, television, and Internet languages.
