Making Waves

Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is author of Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006) and Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), among other books and has published on African American varieties; British, Irish, and Canadian dialects; as well as child, teen, television, and Internet language.

• Preface viii1 Where It Begins 12 Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics 253 A Crescendo of Research 534 Roots of Variationist Thinking 745 Sociolinguistics in the Street 886 Why Statistics Is in Your Head 1077 Sociolinguistics From the Heart 1218 Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams 1319 Why Do You Like Variation? 15810 Launching the Future 169Afterword 185Appendix A List of Interviews 186Appendix B VSLX Family Tree 187References 194Index 202

"Making waves is an interesting first attempt at writing the history of those that were inspired by Labov's groundbreaking work. One can only hope that more studies in this interesting area will follow." (Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 2016)