Penelope Eckert is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of Jocks and Burnouts (1990), Linguistic Variation as Social Practice (2000), co-editor of Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (Cambridge, 2002) with John R. Rickford and co-author of Language and Gender (Cambridge, 2013) with Sally McConnell-Ginet.
Part I. Beginnings and Gascon: 1. The paradox of national language movements
2. Diglossia: separate and unequal
3. Back home
Part II. Jocks, Burnouts and the Second Wave: 4. Clothing and geography in a suburban high school
5. Sound change and adolescent social structure
6. The local and the extra-local
7. Variation and a sense of place
8. On the outs
9. Communities of practice
10. Liberated by gender
11. The whole woman: sex and gender differences in variation
12. Style
13. Variation and personal/group style
14. Back to elementary school
15. Vowels and nailpolish: the emergence of linguistic style in the preadolescent heterosexual marketplace
Part III. The Third Wave: 16. Demystifying sexuality and desire
17. /t/ release and beyond
18. Agency
19. Elephants in the room
20. The nature of indexicality in variation
21. Variation and the indexical field
22. What kinds of signs are these?
23. Where do ethnolects stop?
24. The semiotic landscape
25. Spreading vs circulation
26. Where do we go from here?
