This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a g

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent

Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, wher

An important new study of the social meaning of sociolinguistic variation.

Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sou