The Social Stratification of English in New York City /

The Social Stratification of English in New York City / William Labov.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Labov, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
English language > New York (State) > New York.
English language > Dialects > New York (State) > New York.
English language > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Speech and social status > New York (State) > New York.
English language.
English language > Dialects.
English language > Social aspects.
Language and languages.
Social conditions
Speech and social status.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > Languages.
New York (State) > New York.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Problems and Methods of Analysis: 1. The study of language in its social context
  • 2. First approach to the structure of New York City English
  • 3. The social stratification of English in New York City department stores
  • 4. The isolation of contextual style
  • 5. The linguistic interview
  • 6. The survey of the lower east side
  • Part II. Social Differentiation: 7. Class differentiation of the variables
  • 8. Further analysis of the variables
  • 9. Distribution of the variables in apparent time
  • 10. Other linguistic variables
  • Part III. Social Evaluation: 11. Subjective evaluation of the variables
  • 12. Self-evaluation and linguistic security
  • 13. General attitudes towards the speech of New York City
  • Part IV. Synthesis: 14. The structure of the New York City vowel system.

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