Language Variation and Change

期刊简介：Founded by William Labov, Language Variation and Change is the premier journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation, dealing with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific study of variation is concerned with the impact of this interaction on the structures and processes of traditional linguistics. Language Variation and Change concentrates on the details of linguistic structure in actual speech production and processing (or writing), including contemporary or historical sources.

【译文】《Language Variation and Change》由 William Labov 创立，是专门致力于语言变异研究的首要期刊，涉及共时和历时语言学中的系统性和内在变异。社会语言学涉及分析语言、文化和社会的相互作用；对变异的更具体的研究关注这种相互作用对传统语言学的结构和过程的影响。语言变异和变化集中于实际语音产生和处理（或写作）中的语言结构细节，包括当代或历史来源。