Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation

By Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2006

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Now in its second edition, this is an invaluable manual for teaching and learning variation analysis, the quantitative study of linguistic variation and change. Written by a leading scholar in the field with over thirty years of experience, it provides an insider's view of the methodology through practical, 'hands-on' advice, including straightforward instructions for conducting analyses using the R programming language, the new gold standard for analysis. It leads readers through each phase of a research study based on data gathered in sociocultural contexts, beginning with the selection and sampling of a data source, to hints on successful project design, interview techniques, data management, analysis and interpretation, with systematic procedures provided at each step of the process. This edition has been fully updated, with new insights and explanations in line with recent discoveries in the field, making it essential reading for anyone embarking on their own sociolinguistic research project.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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The Present of the English Future: Grammatical Variation and Collocations in Discourse (2009, methodology): “11 For the purposes of cross-variety comparison, we note that the rate of going to (excluding future-in-past is 27% (N = 370) in Ottawa and 45% (N = 2312) in Toronto (Sali Tagliamonte, personal communication).”
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation (2010, neutral): “The essence of this approach—identifying variable pairs and measuring their frequencies— remains a dominant methodology in both dialec-tology (Labov et al., 2006) and sociolinguis-tics (Tagliamonte, 2006).”
Gender identity and lexical variation in social media (2012, methodology): “Logistic regression is the statistical technique at the core of variable rule analysis (Tagliamonte 2006).”
Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey (2016, methodology): “Surveys and ethnographic research have been the main methods of data collection (Eckert 1989; Milroy and Milroy 1985; Milroy and Gordon 2003; Tagliamonte 2006; Trudgill 1974; Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog 1968).”
Getting off the GoldVarb Standard: Introducing Rbrul for Mixed-Effects Variable Rule Analysis (2009, methodology): “The method has proven extremely popular: it is one of the tools of choice for those who study linguistic variation quantitatively (Tagliamonte 2006).”
Models, forests, and trees of York English: Was/were variation as a case study for statistical practice (2012, background): “Best practice in variationist methodology is to examine cross-tabulations of internal and external predictors for each individual in the data sample in order to evaluate what affect each individual may have (Tagliamonte, 2006).”
Prescription vs. praxis: The evolution of future temporal reference in French (2009, methodology): “For further detail on the assumptions, premises, method, and interpretation of variable-rule analysis, see Guy 1988, 1993, Poplack & Tagliamonte 2001, D. Sankoff 1988b, Tagliamonte 2006, Young & Bayley 1996.”