Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2 : Social Factors

William Labov

ISBN 10: 0631179151 / ISBN 13: 9780631179153

Editore: Wiley Mär 2001, 2001

Neuware - 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 sociolinguistics - Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change - Includes 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. Codice articolo 9780631179153

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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 sociolinguistics
• Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change
• Includes 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

Informazioni sull'autore: 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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Titolo: Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2 : ...
Casa editrice: Wiley Mär 2001
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu