Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics
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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 story about the origins of Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change, recording the context and spirit of sociolinguistics
- Gives students access to the views on language variation of major sociolinguists such as Bill Labov and Peter Trudgill
- Offers a human story of an academic field, and is written in the style of a novel, offering complete accessibility with minimal in-group terminology
- Provides a timely audio archive of the reminiscences of the major Sociolinguists, including Labov, Fasold, Milroy, Trudgill, and Wolfram, with a companion website featuring 400 audio clips from the interviews. Visit the site at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte/makingwaves
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Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is author of Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006) and Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), among other books and has published on African American varieties; British, Irish, and Canadian dialects; as well as child, teen, television, and Internet language.
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Preface viii
1 Where It Begins 1
2 Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics 25
3 A Crescendo of Research 53
4 Roots of Variationist Thinking 74
5 Sociolinguistics in the Street 88
6 Why Statistics Is in Your Head 107
7 Sociolinguistics From the Heart 121
8 Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams 131
9 Why Do You Like Variation? 158
10 Launching the Future 169
Afterword 185
Appendix A List of Interviews 186
Appendix B VSLX Family Tree 187
References 194
Index 202
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"...a useful introduction to some of the major theoretical tenets of the field...for undergraduates just beginning to wade into sociolinguistics who are looking for an accessible path towards some of the discipline’s theoretical underpinnings. Making Waves provides an important and useful form of documentation for how sociolinguistics has grown so rapidly over the past five decades and where variationist sociolinguistics in particular seems to be heading in the years to come." - LINGUIST List, September 2016
