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• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface: the ant’s eye view
• Acknowledgments
• Part I Beginnings
• 1 Gascon
• The Paradox of National Language Movements
• Introduction
• Occitania and Occitan
• Language Shift in Occitania
• The Need for Standardization
• The Regional Periphery
• The Reperipheralization of the Periphery
• Conclusion
• 2 Stigma and Meaning in Language Shift
• Diglossia: Separate and Unequal
• Setting up an Opposition
• Bringing the Opposition into the Community
• Bringing the Opposition Home
• Part II My Participation in the Second Wave
• 3 Jocks and Burnouts
• Clothing and Geography in a Suburban High School
• 4 Jocks, Burnouts and Sound Change
• Sound Change and Adolescent Social Structure
• Introduction
• Background
• Adolescent Social Structure
• The Jocks and the Corporate Structure of the School
• The Burnouts and the Metropolitan Environment
• Polarization of the Categories
• Social Categories and Orientation to Sound Changes in Progress
• Adolescence and Sound Change
• 5 The Local and the Extra-Local
• Variation and a Sense of Place
• The Detroit Suburbs
• The Local Social Order and the Conurbation
• Semiotics, the Local, and the Extra-Local
• A Question of Method
• 6 On the Outs
• Communities of Practice
• Liberated by Gender
• The Whole Woman: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation
• Interpretations of Sex Differences in Variation
• Hierarchy
• Sex Differences as Opposition
• Power, Status, and Other Things
• Gender and Adolescent Social Categories
• Phonological Variation
• Conclusions
• 7 Foregrounding Style
• Variation and Personal/Group Style
• Back to Elementary School
• Vowels and Nailpolish: The Emergence of Linguistic Style in the Preadolescent Heterosexual Marketpl
• Part III The Third Wave
• 8 The SLIC Generation
• Demystifying Sexuality and Desire
• Introduction
• Personae and Identity Categories
• Naturalizing Sexuality, Desire and Emotion
• Sex, Desire, Emotion and the Heterosexual Market
• The Issue of Agency
• Elephants in the Room
• 9 The Nature of Indexicality in Variation
• Variation and the Indexical Field
• Introduction
• The Fate of Meaning in Variation Studies
• Variables, Style, and Social Meaning
• Belten High Adolescents
• Beijing Managers
• Indexical Order and Indexical Fields
• An Example: (ING)
• Another Example: /t/ Release in American English
• Conclusions
• 10 What Kinds of Signs Are These?
• Where Do Ethnolects Stop?
• Introduction
• Variation and Indexicality
• Chicano and Anglo Englishes in California
• Susan, Carlos, Ethnicity, and the Heterosexual Market
• Linguistic Resources
• Conclusions
• 11 The Semiotic Landscape
• Spreading vs. Circulation
• Where Do We Go From Here?
• References
• Index