TY - BOOK AU - Tagliamonte,Sali TI - Making waves: the story of variationist sociolinguistics SN - 9781118455494 AV - P40 U1 - 306.44 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom PB - Wiley Blackwell KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Variation KW - fast KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Where It Begins -- Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics -- A Crescendo of Research -- Roots of Variationist Thinking -- Sociolinguistics in the Street -- Why Statistics in Your Head -- Sociolinguistics From the Heart -- Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams -- Why Do You Like Variation? -- Launching the Future -- Afterword -- Appendix A List of Interviews -- Appendix B VSLX Family Tree N2 - 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 human story of an academic field, and is written in the style of a novel, offering complete accessibility with minimal in-group terminology -Provides a timely audio archive of the reminiscences of the major Sociolinguists, including Labov, Fasold, Milroy, Trudgill, and Wolfram, with a companion website featuring 400 audio clips from the interviews. Visit the site at UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118455494 ER -