This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change.
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- 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
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors
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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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780631179160 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 03/30/2001 |
Series: | Language in Society , #1 |
Edition description: | Volume II ed. |
Pages: | 592 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d) |
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