牛津社会语言学丛书聚焦当代社会语言学的重要课题，体裁多样，内容广泛，研究前沿。卡门·佛特主编的《社会语言学变异的批判性反思(英文版)/牛津社会语言学丛书》为丛书之一，是一部关于语言变体的论文集，收录论文11篇。作者均为变体社会语言学相关方面的领军人物，探讨了变体研究领域若干重要的命题和研究传统，把对这些问题的研究推进了一大步。

The chapters in this volume bring together some of the most prominent researchers in the field ofsociolinguistic variation, both established names and newer voices, for thoughtful reflections on thefield. The chapters cover a wide range of core issues, but within this diversity is a common theme:the critique of conventional wisdom in the sociolinguistic study of variation and the extension ofimportant concepts in variationist research to new areas. This volume is the kind of work thatengages the reader in dialogue, challenges assumptions, and unveils new perspectives.The four main parts of the book provide different perspectives from which particular topics insociolinguistic research are reappraised and explored. Taken together, the chapters inSociolinguistic Variation are a kind of road map of the field: where we have been and where wehope to go. The conference from which these chapters emerged brought out the authors' voices inan unusually intimate and direct way. They speak to issues in the field critically and contemplatively,looking back at the established practices of the variationist tradition and looking forward into howthe future of this relatively young field may develop.

Fought is Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College.

《社会语言学变异的批判性反思(英文版)/牛津社会语言学丛书》由卡门·佛特主编。

Contributors 

Introduction, Carmen Fought

Part I: Sociolinguistic Methods

  1.Some Sources of Divergent Data in Sociolinguistics, Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery 

  2.Ordinary Events, William Labov 

  3.Exploring Intertextuality in the Sociolinguistic Interview, Natalie Schilling-Estes 

Part If: The Exploration of "Place"

  4.Place, Globalization, and Linguistic Variation, Barbara Johnstone  

  5.The Sociolinguistic Construction of Remnant Dialects, Walt Wolfram  

  6.Variation and a Sense of Place, Penelope Eckert  

  7.Adolescents, Young Adults, and the Critical Period: Two Case Studies from "Seven Up", Gillian Sankoff

  8.Three Kinds of Sociolinguistics: A Psycholinguistic Perspective, Dennis R. Preston

Part IV: Attitudes and Ideologies

 9.Language Ideologies and Linguistic Change, Lesley Milroy

 10.The Radical Conservatism of Scots, Ronald Macaulay

 11.Spoken Soul: The Beloved, Belittled Language of Black America, John R. Rickford

Index