Scott F. Kiesling is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published on a wide variety of sociolinguistic projects. Through analyses of language in use in a number of different populations and places, he has focused on understanding how speakers create social meaning with language.
Chapter 1 Questions about language and variation, and where we got them
Chapter 2 The linguistic variable
Chapter 3 Discovering and describing patterns of variation and change
Chapter 4 Social patterns 1: Interspeaker variation
Chapter 5 Social patterns II: Intraspeaker variation
Chapter 6 Meaning and social patterns
Chapter 7 Acquisition of variation
Chapter 8 Structural patterns 1: Phonology and morphology
Chapter 9 Structural patterns 2: Syntax, lexical variables, and suprasegmentals
Chapter 10 The life and times of linguistic changes
