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This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of what has become the basic framework for studying language variation and change"--

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William Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: life and death.

This third and final volume of the Principles of Linguistic Change set examines the cognitive and cultural causes responsible for linguistic change, and traces the history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Labov draws upon the newly completed Atlas of North American English to look more deeply into questions of linguistic change, focusing on the cognitive factors that determine the capacity of the ...

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 insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale * Examines the cognitive and cultural influences ...

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this three-volume set examines the historical, social, cognitive, and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change.

Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of conveying complex logic and reasoning and confirms the Black vernacular as a separate and independent dialect of English. "Get it . . . read it . . . study it. Labov's book is a complete description of the features, issues, and instructional implications pertaining to b...

This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics.

This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting.

Explores how narrators take advantage of language to grip the reader's attention.

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 localized dialects of North American English are increasingly diverging from one another over time.Contrary to the general expectation that mass cultu...

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

This groundbreaking study of New York speech founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, presenting a pioneering new account of social variation in language. In this second edition, Labov reviews forty years of findings in sociolinguistics, and brings the reader up to date on the methods, results and achievements of sociolinguistic research.

This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change.Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguisticsFeatures the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic changeIncludes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate ...