This volume concludes the reflection led by SEARCH on "Reprise, Recycling, Recuperation in Anglophone culture," with the new perspective of interrogating the less consensual relationships between these concepts, the dissonance and disharmony, the contacts, frictions and clashes through which cultural constructions take shape...

The contributions to this issue of Ranam deal with the notions of accents, variation(s) and representation, examining the broad issue of variation from the point of view of diachronic, sociolinguistic, and textual change seen through its linguistic representation.