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Towards a Social Science of Language : Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1: Variation and change in language and society.
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and...
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- TOWARDS A SOCIAL SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Foreword; I. The Social Organization of Variation and Change; Dialect Typology: Isolation, Social Network and Phonological Structure; Dialectand Style in the Speech of Upper Class Philadelphia; (ay) Goes to the City Exploring the expressive use of variation; SocialClass and Language Variation in Bilingual Speech Communities; "Why do women do this?" Sex and Gender Differences in Speech; Interactional Conditioning of Linguistic Heterogeneity; Peaksand Glides in Southern States Short-a.
- Denasalization of the Velar Nasal in Tokyo Japanese: Observations in Real TimeII. The Linguistic Structure of Variation and Change; Variation and Drift: Loss of Agreement in Germanic; Turning Different at the Turn of the Century: 19th Century Brazilian Portuguese; Form and Function in Linguistic Variation; The History of the Ancient Hebrew Modal System and Labov's Rule of Compensatory Structural Change; Phonetic Evidence for the Evolution of Lexical Classes: The Case of a Montreal French Vowel Shift; Phonological Rule Set Complexity in a Very Large Vocabulary Word Recognition System.
- III. African-American Varieties of EnglishThe Origins of Variation in Guyanese; The Urbanization of Creole Phonology: Variation and Change in Jamaican (KYA); CopulaVariabilityin Jamaican Creole and African American Vernacular English: A Reanalysis of DeCamp's Texts; Contraction and Deletion in African American Vernacular English: Creole History and Relationship to Euro-American English; Dimensions of a Theory of Econolinguistics; William Labov: A Bibliography; Index.