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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors Volume II Edition
Contributor(s): Labov, William (Author)

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 ISBN: 0631179151     ISBN-13: 9780631179153
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE: $164.30  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2001
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Annotation: This volume presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. It includes the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change. These findings are developed further on the basis of a broad range of sociolinguistic studies in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the recently completed "Atlas of North American English."

Successive chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks 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. Detailed portraits of individual leaders show that the women who lead linguistic change are distinguished from others by their general pattern of deviation from established norms of conformity. Mathematical models are developed to account for the linear incrementation of change in progress, and the transmission of change across generations.

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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 417.7
LCCN: 92115935
Series: Language in Society
Physical Information: 1.88" H x 6.34" W x 9.16" L (2.17 lbs) 592 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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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
 
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