The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (review)

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Errata slip inserted. Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology / J.K. Chambers -- pt. I. Methodologies -- Field Methods. Introduction / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- 1. Entering the Community: Fieldwork / Crawford Feagin -- 2. Language with an Attitude / Dennis R. Preston -- 3. Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents / Edgar W. Schneider -- 4. Inferring Variation and Change from Public Corpora / Laurie Bauer -- Evaluation. Introduction / J.K. Chambers -- 5. Quantitative Paradigm / Robert Bayley -- 6. Implicational Scales / John R. Rickford -- 7. Instrumental Phonetics / Erik R. Thomas -- pt. II. Linguistic Structure -- Introduction / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- 8. Variation and Phonological Theory / Arto Anttila -- 9. Investigating Chain Shifts and Mergers / Matthew J. Gordon -- 10. Variation and Syntactic Theory / Alison Henry -- 11. Discourse Variation / Ronald Macaulay -- pt. III. Social Factors -- Time. Introduction / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- 12. Real and Apparent Time / Guy Bailey -- 13. Child Language Variation / Julie Roberts -- 14. Patterns of Variation including Change / J.K. Chambers -- Social Differentiation. Introduction / Peter Trudgill -- 15. Investigating Stylistic Variation / Natalie Schilling-Estes -- 16. Social Class / Sharon Ash -- 17. Sex and Gender in Variationist Research / Jenny Cheshire -- 18. Ethnicity / Carmen Fought -- Domains. Introduction / Peter Trudgill -- 19. Language and Identity / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- 20. Family / Kirk Hazen -- 21. Communities of Practice / Miriam Meyerhoff -- 22. Social Networks / Lesley Milroy -- 23. Speech Community / Peter L. Patrick -- pt. IV. Contact -- Introduction / Peter Trudgill -- 24. Space and Spatial Diffusion / David Britain -- 25. Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact / Gillian Sankoff -- 26. Koineization and Accommodation / Paul Kerswill -- pt. V. Language and Societies -- Introduction / J.K. Chambers -- 27. Linguistic and Social Typology / Peter Trudgill -- 28. Comparative Sociolinguistics / Sali Tagliamonte -- 29. Language Death and Dying / Walt Wolfram.