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Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centering on the study of language variation and change.

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• Synthesizes the most important descriptive and theoretical findings concerning linguistic variation from the last forty years.
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• Provides an integrated framework for studying language variation and its social significance.
  
• Expands on the first edition's discussion of communicative competence and developmental sociolinguistics.
  
• Is written by one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of variation studies and includes data from his own work.

J. K. Chambers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is co-editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (with Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002), co-author (with Peter Trudgill) of Dialectology (2nd edition, 1998), and also author of other books and scores of articles. He works extensively as a forensic consultant, and maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, including the prizewinning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (1998).