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Dialect Diversity in America : the Politics of Language Change /

"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 geographical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Labov, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About language and language change
  • A hidden consensus
  • Hidden diversity
  • The growing divergence of black and white English
  • The politics of African American English
  • Language change as local politics
  • The political ideology of the northern cities shift
  • Putting it all together
  • Appendix: Summary statement on African American vernacular English.