William Labov

Soc Stratific Eng New York City 2ed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Second edition of William Labov's groundbreaking study, in which he looks back on forty years of achievements in sociolinguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780521528054
• ISBN-10: 0521528054
• Artikelnr.: 22227102

Autorenporträt

William Labov is Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

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.