/ Manzano, Francis -- Variation and change -- 6. Speaker variables in Romance: when demography and ideology collide / Armstrong, Nigel / Mackenzie, Ian -- 7. Speaker variables and their relation to language change / D'Agostino, Mari / Paternostro, Giuseppe -- 8. Variation and grammaticalization in Romance: a cross-linguistic study of the subjunctive / Poplack, Shana / Cacoullos, Rena Torres / Dion, Nathalie / Berlinck, Rosane de Andrade / Digesto, Salvatore / Lacasse, Dora / Steuck, Jonathan -- 9. Historical sociolinguistics and tracking language change: sources, text types and genres / Ayres-Bennett, Wendy -- 10. Speaker-based approaches to past language states / Anipa, Kormi -- 11. Variation and prescriptivism / Costa-Carreras, Joan -- Medium, register, text type, genre -- 12. Oral genres: concepts and complexities / Carruthers, Janice -- 13. Register and text type / Zafiu, Rodica -- 14. New Media: new Romance varieties? / Kallweit, Daniel -- 15. Medium and creole / Ludwig, Ralph -- Linguae minores / Minoritized languages: status, norms, policy and revitalization -- 16. Language policies in the Romancespeaking countries of Europe / Bochmann, Klaus -- 17. Linguistic diversity in Spain / Ramallo, Fernando -- 18. The languages and dialects of Italy / Berruto, Gaetano -- 19. Multilingualism in Switzerland / Grünert, Matthias -- 20. Revitalization and the public space / Blackwood, Robert -- 21. Revitalization and education / Ghimenton, Anna / Depau, Giovanni -- Language contact -- 22. Romance in contact with Romance / Schulte, Kim -- 23. Language contact between typologically different languages: functional transfer / Escobar, Anna María -- 24. When Romance meets English / McLaughlin, Mairi -- 25. Language contact in a rural community / Bullock, Barbara E. -- 26. Code-switching and immigrant communities: the case of Italy / Goglia, Francesco -- 27. The metropolization of French worldwide / Gadet, Françoise / Hambye, Philippe -- 28. Transnational migration and language practices: the impact on Spanish-speaking migrants / Mar-Molinero, Clare / Paffey, Darren -- Contributors -- Index of concepts -- Index of names |