Making Waves

<p><i>Making Waves</i> tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline.</p> <ul> <li>An authentic, inside story about the origins of Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change, recording the context and spirit of sociolinguistics</li> <li>Gives students access to the views on language variation of major sociolinguists such as Bill Labov and Peter Trudgill</li> <li>Offers a human story of an academic field, and is written in the style of a novel, offering complete accessibility with minimal in-group terminology</li> <li>Provides a timely audio archive of the reminiscences of the major Sociolinguists, including Labov, Fasold, Milroy, Trudgill, and Wolfram, with a companion website featuring 400 audio clips from the interviews. Visit the site at <a href=”http://www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte/makingwaves”>www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte/makingwaves</a></li> </ul>