İçindekiler: American English enters academe / Harold B. Allen -- Teaching the grammar of vernacular English / Walt Wolfram -- Sociolinguistic analysis of dialogues and first-person narratives in fiction / Barbara Hill Hudson -- Speechprint spectrography confirms idiolect in dialect study and speaker recognition / Henry M. Truby -- When students collect data : ethics, cooperation, self-discovery, and variation in linguistic and cultural behavior / Boyd Davis -- Learning from dictionaries / Frederic G. Cassidy -- Using toponymic onomastics in a pedagogical setting to demonstrate phonological variation (an essay on names) / Thomas L. Clark -- Studying the English of rituals / Richard W. Bailey -- Settlement patterns and language variation : a model for research / Timothy C. Frazer -- Questionnaire for the study of South Carolina English / Michael Montgomery -- Folk dialect maps / Dennis R. Preston -- The use of pictures in collecting regional synonyms in the classroom / Gordon R. Wood -- Designing a phonological survey for students / Gilbert Youmans -- Using audio recordings to study variation in international English / Charles B. Martin -- DARE in the classroom / John Algeo -- Student-designed projects on Canadian English / Lilita Rodman --

Research trends for Black American English / John Baugh -- How to study black speech in Chicago / Michael I. Miller -- Investigating Gullah : difficulties in ensuring "authenticity" / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Teaching speakers of Caribbean English Creoles in North American classrooms / Lise Winer -- Bilingualism and language variation among Chicanos in the Southwest / D. Letticia Galindo -- Language and human conflict : a case-study approach to language variation / Donald W. Larmouth -- Teaching about sex variation in language / Miriam Watkins Meyers -- Investigating sex-marked language / Donald M. Lance -- Sprangorland : a fictional case study in variation and historical change through cultural, political, and linguistic interaction / Greta D. Little -- A simplified model of language variation and change : a history of the Bot people / A. Wayne Glowka -- Indo-European roots : lexical variation and change through the millennia / Donald M. Lance --

Standard English and the study of variation : "it all be done for a purpose" / James H. Sledd -- From standard Latin to standard English / Mark Amsler -- Attitudes toward language variation / Donald M. Lance -- Investigating disputed usages / Charles F. Meyer -- Using the word ain't to introduce the study of dialects to high school students ; A critical approach to questions of usage / Harry Homa -- Studying phonological variation through photography / Kathryn Riley and Frank Parker -- Accommodating nonmainstream language in the composition classroom / Jerrie Cobb Scott -- Dusty books and dense contracts : exercises that involve students in language research projects / Jeutonne P. Brewer -- Variation in written English : punctuation / Greta D. Little -- Using language study in freshman composition / Lynn K. Varn, George Dorrill, and Gloria Jones -- Sneaking linguistics into the freshman comp classroom : compiling a "dictionary of slang" / Karen McFarland Canine.