One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader[...]

With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics-or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or Black English Vernacular-much attention has been paid to the patterns of speech prevalent among African Americans in the inn[...]

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically loc[...]

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.* Explores the major insigh[...]

The first accessible single volume introduction and guide to Labov's work.>

I denne boka presenteres åtte språk: arabisk, bosnisk-kroatisk-serbisk, japansk, kinesisk, koreansk, urdu, tsjekkisk og tyrkisk. Språkenes struktur og særtrekk blir beskrevet, men først og fremst er fokus rettet mot språkenes rolle som standardspråk - den moderne nasjonalstatens sentrale komm[...]