Book Review Miguel A. Aijón Oliva & María José Serrano. 2013. Style in syntax: Investigating variation in Spanish pronoun subjects. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 243, ISBN 9783034312448 Reviewed by Manuel Díaz-Campos, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, 355 North Jordan Avenue, IN 47405 Bloomington, USA, E-mail: mdiazcam@indiana.edu DOI 10.1515/flin-2015-0021 Style in Syntax: Investigating variation in Spanish pronoun subjects is a book that examines the cognitive and discursive implications of syntactic variation in Spanish subject pronouns. Spanish subject pronouns have been studied in several varieties of Latin American Spanish (e.g., Argentina, México, Puerto Rico and Venezuela) as well as in Peninsular Spanish (see Erker and Guy 2012), with a focus on linguistic and/or extralinguistic constraints, on contact issues in the US, on Spanish Second Language Acquisition, and on frequency- driven cognitive effects. Readers of this volume, which is targeted to specialists in discourse analysis, language variation and change, and, most specifically, morphosyntactic variation, as well as graduate students in Hispanic linguistics, will find here an excellent source for the study of discourse analysis and its application to syntactic variation in Spanish. The book is organized into five chapters comprising a theoretical introduc- tion to the topic, a description of the corpora and the methodology, the analysis of subject pronouns in Spanish, the development of socio-communicative styles in discourse, and style and interpersonal relationships. In the first chapter, the authors provide a general account of their theoretical approach, according to which linguistic variation is portrayed as a communicative choice. They adopt a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates findings concerning the study of variation in the last decade, including quantitative sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and ethnographic and interactional approaches. The authors’ main claim is that grammatical constructions reflect stylistic choices that create meaning in context. The meaning of syntactic constructions is thus a complex issue involving pragmatics, discourse analysis, socio-situational and cognitive values. Chapter 2 describes the corpora (Corpus Conversacional del Español de Canarias and Corpus de Lenguaje de los Medios de Comunicación de Salamanca) as well as the variables taken into account, including textual genre and social factors. This chapter also justifies why a qualitative analysis is needed. It lays out the more descriptive and qualitative nature of the investigation, which intentionally differs Folia Linguistica 2015; 49(2): 569–571