Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I: Sociolinguistic variation: Usage-based perspectives -- Dialect contact in a Southern U.S. city: Testing Trudgill's model. Robin Dodsworth & Mary Kohn -- Variation, use and language change: The case of middles. Casilda García de la Maza -- Pathways to multilingual acquisition in Veneto: A usage-based perspective of code choices in the input and output in a language contact situation. Anna Ghimenton -- Performing communicative style: Variation of usted/ustedes subjects and cognition in socio-situational interaction. María José Serrano & Miguel Ángel Aijón Oliva -- Certainty and uncertainty in spoken language: In search of epistemic sociolect and idiolect. Vaclav Brezina -- Section II: Socio-cognitive variation: Perceptions and attitudes -- On the dynamics of non-linguists' dialect perceptions - the perceived spatiality of /s/ variation in Finnish. Johanna Vaattovaara -- A socio-cognitive approach to evaluative folk metalanguage: The aesthetic value of German and French varieties in Switzerland. Christina Cuonz -- Madam or aunty ji: Address forms in British and Indian English as a reflection of culture and cognition. Tatiana Larina & Neelakshi Suryanarayan -- An empirical taxonomy of linguistic identities. Holger Schmitt -- Comparing objective and subjective linguistic distances between European and Brazilian Portuguese. Augusto Soares da Silva -- Section III: Variation in cognitive structures: Categorisation, construal, schema and FIGURE-GROUND alignment -- Diglossia or dialect-standard continuum in speakers' awareness and usage: On the categorisation of lectal variation in Austria. Irmtraud Kaiser & Andrea Ender -- "Estuary English", or "Where does the notion of 'variety' start and end?" - A proposal for a prototype approach to language variation. Ulrike Altendorf.

Backgrounded but not peripheral. On the use of Danish directional adverbs as contextualization cues. Henrik Hovmark -- A sociolinguistic analysis of the German alternation between bis an and bis zu constructions. Sabine De Knop -- Degrees of specificity in spatial semantics. Martin Thiering.