This is Volume Two of a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Volume Two focuses on the study of discourse, and develops themes in Labovian linguistics.

1. Preface; 2. Foreword; 3. I. Social Interaction and discourse structures; 4. Discourse analysis, structuralism, and the description of social practice (by Linde, Charlotte); 5. Third Turn repair (by Schegloff, Emanuel A.); 6. The transformation of experience, identity, and context (by Schiffrin, Deborah); 7. Deliberative action constructs: Reference and evaluation in Narrative (by Bower, Anne R.); 8. byplay: Negotiation evaluation in storytelling (by Goodwin, Marjorie H.); 9. An empirical study of textual structure: horse race calls (by Horvath, Barbara M.); 10. Discourse clues to coded language in an impeachment hearing (by Shuy, Roger W.); 11. The Incongruity of jokes, riddles and humorous situations (by Weiner, E. Judith); 12. Discourse enumerators and Schegloff's denominator (by Dubois, Sylvie); 13. On the interactional bases of speech community membership (by Gumperz, John J.); 14. II. Language in use: Syntactic and lexical variation; 15. On focusing sentences in brazilian Portuguese (by Oliviera, Marco Antonio de); 16. On kind-sentences, resumptive pronouns, and relative clauses (by Prince, Ellen F.); 17. Viewpoint, sequencing, and pronoun usage in Javanese short stories (by Myhill, John); 18. Patterns of incorporation of lexemes in language contact: Language typology or sociolinguistics? (by Boyd, Sally); 19. The sociolinguistics dynamics of apparent convergence (by Poplack, Shana); 20. Varbrul and the human/inanimate polarization of the Swahili object marker (by Wald, Benji); 21. Bibliography; 22. Index