Methodologies for data collection are central to the study of social variation in language. With a focus on real language, a primary aim of sociolinguistics is to create and refine methods for the collection of data that reflects spoken and written language in use.
Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications provides up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and informative discussion about methods of data collection in sociolinguistic research. Our volume will contain longer chapters as well as shorter vignettes written by top sociolinguists, both veteran and emerging scholars.