Full Description
This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brings together the key texts of language variation and change to provide a comprehensive collection that represents the field's development and showcases the diverse communities that have been the subjects of investigation.
Contents
Volume II Issues and Debates in the study of Variation: Part 5 The nature of the linguistic variable 14 Where does the sociolinguistic variable stop? 15 Syntactic variation and beyond: gender and social class variation in the use of discourse-new markers Part 6 Style 16 Language style as audience design 17 Investigating 'self-conscious' speech: the performance register in Ocracoke English Part 7 Perception, processing and attitudes 18 The nature of sociolinguistic perception 19 Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor 20 Language with an attitude Part 8 Functional compensation 21 Functional compensation for /s/ deletion in Puerto Rican Spanish 22 Ambiguous agreement, functional compensation, and nonspecifc tú in the Spanish of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Madrid, Spain Part 9 The role of frequency in variation and change 23 Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change 24 Form, function, and frequency in phonological variation Part 10 The origins of African American English 25 The relationship between African American and White Vernaculars in the American South: a sociocultural history and some phonological evidence 26 How English became African American English 27 Against consensus: challenging the New Anglicists'
