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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2

W Labov
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      This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguisticsFeatures the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic changeIncludes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: W Labov EAN: 9780631179160 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 794 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: John Wiley and Sons Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-22 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Sociolinguistics, Sociology: family and relationships

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      The author is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-editor of Language Variation and Change and is author of Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Language in the Inner City (1972), and Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors (Blackwell, 1994).
      This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguisticsFeatures the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic changeIncludes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: W Labov EAN: 9780631179160 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 794 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: John Wiley and Sons Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-01-22 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Sociolinguistics, Sociology: family and relationships

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      The author is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-editor of Language Variation and Change and is author of Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Language in the Inner City (1972), and Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors (Blackwell, 1994).

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