Frontmatter -- Manuals of Romance Linguistics -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 0. Romance sociolinguistics: past, present, future -- Methodological issues -- 1. Annotating oral corpora -- 2. Quantitative approaches for modelling variation and change: a case study of sociophonetic data from Occitan -- 3. Collecting and analysing creole data -- 4. Fieldwork and building corpora for endangered varieties -- 5. Romance dialectology: from the nineteenth century to the era of sociolinguistics -- Variation and change -- 6. Speaker variables in Romance: when demography and ideology collide -- 7. Speaker variables and their relation to language change -- 8. Variation and grammaticalization in Romance: a cross-linguistic study of the subjunctive -- 9. Historical sociolinguistics and tracking language change: sources, text types and genres -- 10. Speaker-based approaches to past language states -- 11. Variation and prescriptivism -- Medium, register, text type, genre -- 12. Oral genres: concepts and complexities -- 13. Register and text type -- 14. New Media: new Romance varieties? -- 15. Medium and creole -- Linguae minores / Minoritized languages: status, norms, policy and revitalization -- 16. Language policies in the Romancespeaking countries of Europe -- 17. Linguistic diversity in Spain -- 18. The languages and dialects of Italy -- 19. Multilingualism in Switzerland -- 20. Revitalization and the public space -- 21. Revitalization and education -- Language contact -- 22. Romance in contact with Romance -- 23. Language contact between typologically different languages: functional transfer -- 24. When Romance meets English -- 25. Language contact in a rural community -- 26. Code-switching and immigrant communities: the case of Italy -- 27. The metropolization of French worldwide -- 28. Transnational migration and language practices: the impact on Spanish-speaking migrants -- Contributors -- Index of concepts -- Index of names