Style and Sociolinguistic Variation by Eckert/Rickford Paperback / softback The
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a great deal about speakers’ strategies with respect to variables such as social class, gender, ethnicity and age, it also affords us the opportunity to observe linguistic change in progress.