J. K. Chambers & Natalie Schilling 
The Handbook of Language Variation and Change [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors xiii
Preface to the Second Edition xv
Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology 1
J.K. Chambers
Part I Data Collection 17
1 Entering the Community: Fieldwork 19
Crawford Feagin
2 Data in the Study of Variation and Change 38
Tyler Kendall
3 Investigating Historical Variation and Change in Written Documents: New Perspectives 57
Edgar W. Schneider
Part II Evaluation 83
4 The Quantitative Paradigm 85
Robert Bayley
5 Sociophonetics 108
Erik R. Thomas
6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 128
Sali A. Tagliamonte
7 Language with an Attitude 157
Dennis R. Preston
Part III Linguistic Structure 183
8 Variation and Syntactic Theory 185
Ralph W. Fasold
9 Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers 203
Matthew J. Gordon
10 Discourse Variation 220
Ronald Macaulay
Part IV Language and Time 237
11 Real Time and Apparent Time 239
Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey
12 Child Language Variation 263
Julie Roberts
13 Adolescence 277
Sam Kirkham and Emma Moore
14 Patterns of Variation including Change 297
J.K. Chambers
Part V Social Differentiation 325
15 Investigating Stylistic Variation 327
Natalie Schilling
16 Social Class 350
Sharon Ash
17 Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities 368
Robin Queen
18 Ethnicity 388
Carmen Fought
Part VI Domains 407
19 Social Networks 409
Lesley Milroy and Carmen Llamas
20 Communities of Practice 428
Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz
21 Constructing Identity 448
Scott F. Kiesling
Part VII Contact 469
22 Space, Diffusion and Mobility 471
David Britain
23 Linguistic Outcomes of Bilingualism 501
Gillian Sankoff
24 Koineization 519
Paul Kerswill
25 Supraregionalisation and Dissociation 537
Raymond Hickey
Part VIII Sociolinguists and Their Communities 555
26 Community Commitment and Responsibility 557
Walt Wolfram
Postscript 577
Natalie Schilling and Jack Chambers
Index 579

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).