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• Cover
• Title page
• Preface
• 1 Where It Begins
• Martha’s Vineyard – 1960
• New York City – 1963
• York, England – 1963
• William Bright’s Conference – 1964
• The LSA Summer Institute – 1964
• Detroit
• Washington
• Center for Applied Linguistics – 1967
• LSA Annual Meeting – 1968
• Papua New Guinea – 1968
• Norwich – 1968
• Founding a Sociolinguistics Department – 1969
• Belfast – 1970
• Montreal – 1970
• NWAV 1 – 1972
• The Montreal French Project – 1970s
• Summary
• 2 Synchronicity and Sociolinguistics
• Finding Linguistics
• Finding Labov
• Studying with Bill
• Expansion and Reorganization
• 3 A Crescendo of Research
• African American Vernacular English
• The Constant Rate Effect
• Lexical Phonology
• Puerto Rican Spanish
• Code-Switching and Borrowing
• The Brazilian Connection
• Audience Design
• Vernacular Roots
• Historical Change and the Corpus Building Enterprise
• Publishing Variationist Sociolinguistics
• 4 Roots of Variationist Thinking
• Variationist Sociolinguistics
• Roots of Variation
• Teaching
• Accolades to Bill
• 5 Sociolinguistics in the Street
• Fieldwork
• The Sociolinguistic Interview
• Fieldwork Sites
• Building a Corpus
• 6 Why Statistics Is in Your Head
• The Variable Rule Program
• Using the Variable Rule Program
• Why the Variable Rule Program?
• Sharpening Our Tools
• 7 Sociolinguistics From the Heart
• Reading
• Labov’s Reading Program
• Roger’s Work in the Courts
• Walt’s Outreach Program
• 8 Branching Out; Bursting at the Seams
• Challenging the Categories
• Variable Rules
• The Social Component
• Structure vs. Agency
• The Debate over AAVE
• Identity
• Social Meaning
• The Waves
• The York (UK) Connection
• Prescription vs. Praxis
• Perception and Attitude
• Grammaticalization
• Evolution of the Literature
• 9 Why Do You Like Variation?
• Guy Bailey
• Robert Bayley
• Joan Beal
• Frans Gregersen
• Gregory Guy
• Barbara Horvath
• Paul Kerswill
• Anthony J. Naro
• Terttu Nevalainen
• Shana Poplack
• Suzanne Romaine
• David Sankoff
• John Singler
• Deborah Tannen
• Ann Taylor
• Pierrette Thibault
• Gunnel Tottie
• Roeland van Hout
• Anthony Warner
• Don Winford
• Walt Wolfram
• 10 Launching the Future
• NWAV
• Legacy of Method
• Advice
• The Horizon
• Afterword
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement