Introduction Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas; Part I. Theories: 1. Variation
and phonological theory Gregory R. Guy; 2. Variation and syntactic theory
Lisa Green; 3. The psycholinguistic unity of inherent variability: old
Occam whips out his razor Ralph W. Fasold and Dennis R. Preston; 4. The
study of variation in historical perspective Kirk Hazen; 5. Style in
dialogue: Bakhtin and sociolinguistic theory Allan Bell; 6. Variation and
historical linguistics Michael Montgomery; 7. Second language acquisition:
a variationist perspective Robert Bayley; 8. Variation and modality Ceil
Lucas; Part II. Methods: 9. Fieldwork Natalie Schilling-Estes; 10.
Quantitative analysis Sali A. Tagliamonte; 11. Sociophonetics Erik R.
Thomas; Part III. Applications: 12. Sociolinguistic variation and education
Carolyn Temple Adger and Donna Christian; 13. Lessons learned from the
Ebonics controversy: implications for language assessment Anna F.
Vaughn-Cooke; 14. Variation and versatility in the classroom: contrastive
analysis revisited Angela E. Rickford and John R. Rickford; 15.
Social-political influences on research practices: examining language
acquisition by African American children Ida J. Stockman; 16.
Sociolinguistic variation and the law Ronald R. Butters; 17. Attitudes
towards variation and ear-witness testimony John Baugh; Afterword Roger W.
Shuy.
