Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford''s pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently did in the 1960s and 1970s, when both subfields, in their modern forms at least, were getting started...