ABSTRACT
The cognitive sociolinguistics research program requires attention to a key variationist research technique: the interview. In 1972, William Labov delineated for sociolinguistics the goal of providing the study of language with a new research methodology, which included the sociolinguistic interview as an essential tool. Consequently, the interview has been the subject of many of the most important publications treating methodological issues (cf. Frattini and Quesada 1994; AnderEgg 1995; Arfuch 1995). A volume devoted to cognitive sociolinguistics shall not deviate from that tradition.
