Tagliamonte, Sali A.
Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics
- An authentic, inside story about the origins of Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change, recording the context and spirit of sociolinguistics
- Provides a timely audio archive of the reminiscences of the major Sociolinguists, including Labov, Fasold, Milroy, Trudgill, and Wolfram, with a companion website at featuring 400 audio clips from the interviews
- 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
Keywords: Variationist sociolinguistics
- Author(s)
- Tagliamonte, Sali A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 224 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118455449
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118455166