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Tagliamonte documents the marginalised language of teens, presenting the fascinating inside story of language variation and change.

Tagliamonte documents the marginalised language of teens, presenting the fascinating inside story of language variation and change.

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...

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...

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language.

• Represents the most up-to-date coverage of the history, developments, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics
• Addresses all aspects of linguistic variation, including areas not usually covered in introductory texts, e.g. the phonological, morpho-syntactic, discourse/pragmatic
• Outlines comparative...

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language.

• Represents the most up-to-date coverage of the history, developments, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics
• Addresses all aspects of linguistic variation, including areas not usually covered in introductory texts, e.g. the phonological, morpho-syntactic, discourse/pragmatic
• Outlines comparative...

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English's development.

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English's development.

Many of the questions related to the treatment of drug addiction originate from the confusion that still characterizes this issue, even though biology is irreversibly changing our outlook on the physiology and psychopathology of the mind. In fact, prejudices stemming from the archaic concept of mind-body dualism are so difficult to eradicate that even a skilled psychiatrist may find it hard to distinguish a psychiatric symptom from a socially transgressive behavior. The dilemma becomes even more salient for drug addiction, since many of the substances which induce abuse and dependence are...