音韻論・音声学に社会的要因を加味する近年の注目分野「社会音声学」の初のハンドブック。「社会音声学と日本語」の章を含む。This is the first handbook devoted to sociophonetic research and applications of sociophonetics within and beyond linguistics. It defines what sociophonetics is as a field and offers views of what sociophonetics might become. From the Contents: 24. Sociophonetics and Japanese (Kenjiro Matsuda, Shoji Takano, Yoshiyuki Asahi, and Ichiro Ota).