Variationist Sociolinguistics : Change, Observation, Interpretation.

Intro -- Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change -- Sociolinguistics -- The Linguistic Variable -- Linguistic Change -- The Principle of Accountability -- Circumscribing the Variable Context -- Evolution of the Linguistic Variable -- The Importance of Accountability -- Language Variation and Change and Linguistic Theory -- Exercises -- 2 Social Patterns -- Social Class -- Sex (or Gender) -- Style and Register -- Mobility in Space and Mobility in Class -- Social Network, Communities of Practice -- Ethnicity and Culture -- The Mass Media -- Age -- Types of Change -- Principles of Linguistic Change -- Summary -- Exercises -- 3 Linguistic Patterns -- Sound Change -- Morphological Change -- Syntactic Change -- Semantic Change -- Grammaticalization -- Lexical Effects -- Exemplar Theory -- Exercises -- 4 Data and Method -- The Speech Community -- Corpus Building -- Creating Sociolinguistic Corpora -- The Individual and the Group -- Constructing an LVC Study -- Research Ethics -- The Gold - Your Data -- The Real World -- 5 Quantitative Analysis -- The Quantitative Paradigm -- Distributional Analysis -- Statistical Modeling -- The Three Lines of Evidence -- The Case Study - Variable (that) -- Goldvarb Logistic Regression -- Challenging the Variable Rule Program -- Drawbacks to the Variable Rule Program -- New Toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics -- Summary -- Exercises -- 6 Comparative Sociolinguistics -- Comparison -- The Comparative Method -- Comparison in Origins -- Comparison in Language Contact -- Standards for Comparison -- Variable (did) -- Exercises -- 7 Phonological Variables -- Variable (t,d) -- Variable (ing).

Tips for Studying Phonological Variables -- Exercises -- 8 Morpho-Syntactic Variables -- Verbal (s) -- Adverb (ly) -- Modal (have to) -- Studying Morpho-Syntactic Variables -- Exercises -- 9 Discourse/Pragmatic Features -- Quotative (be like) -- General Extenders -- Studying the Discourse/Pragmatic Variable -- Exercises -- 10 Tense/Aspect Variables -- Grammaticalization and Tense/Aspect Variables -- Future (going to) -- Perfect (have) -- Studying Tense/Aspect Variables -- Exercises -- 11 Other Variables -- Variable (come) -- Variable (Intensifiers) -- Language and the Internet -- Studying Unusual Variables -- Exercises -- 12 Sociolinguistic Explanations -- What Are the Constraints on Change? -- How Does Language Change? -- How Is a Change Embedded in Social and Linguistic Systems? -- Evaluation of a Change -- Statistical Modeling -- Traditional Explanations -- The Principle of Interaction -- Appendix A: Corpora Cited -- Appendix B: Time Periods in the History of English -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Linguistic Variables.

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