The 15 papers cover sociolinguistic variation: usage-based perspectives; socio-cognitive variation: perceptions and attitudes; and variation in cognitive structures: categorization, construal, schema, and FIGURE-GROUND alignment. Among specific topics are testing Trudgill's model on dialect contact in a southern US city, variation of usted/ustedes subjects and cognition in socio-situational interaction, an empirical taxonomy of linguistic identities, comparing objective and subjective linguistic distances between European and Brazilian Portuguese, and a sociolinguistic analysis of the German alternation between bis an and bis zu constructions. There is no index. A second accompanying collection of papers, including the keynote, will appear in the journal Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)