TY - BOOK AU - Tagliamonte,Sali TI - Making wave: the story of variationist sociolinguistics SN - 9781118455166 (hardback) AV - P120.V37 T345 2016 U1 - 417/.7 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Hoboken, New Jersey PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Language and languages KW - Variation KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics KW - bisacsh KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Research KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) N1 - Includes index; Machine generated contents note: 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 193 Index 000 N2 - "Making Waves: The History of Variationist Sociolinguistics tells the human story of an academic field based on one-on-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Socioinguistics"-- UR - http://catalogimages.wiley.com/images/db/jimages/9781118455166.jpg ER -