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Dear Variationisers, One of my BA dissertation students is planning to conduct interviews within families, recording their speech and probably also conducting some semi-structured interviews with them, at a later time, about their dialect usage and differences between the generations of their family. Now, walk into any collection of sociolinguistic research and you'll immediately be tripping over studies of intergenerational dialect differences within communities, but variation within individual families... that I'm not so sure is very well covered. I recall Paul Kerswill and Eivind Torgersen's 2004 article in JoS referencing James Hurford's 1967 PhD thesis examining one East London family's language use. I've also since found this paper http://goo.gl/JwQfl3, which isn't quite what I'm after but does have useful discussions of the role of family. There's a fair bit of research within families discussing language *shift*, but not as much (that I can find) about dialect variation. Surely this has had more coverage... Anyone? Ideally I'm looking for stuff on British English dialects, but from a general methodological and theoretical point of view, studies from anywhere would be useful. Please reply to me off the main list and I'll report back with the responses. Thanks, Dave -- Dr. Dave Sayers Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK [log in to unmask] | http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1