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Dialect diversity in America : the politics of language change
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Title
Dialect diversity in America : the politics of language change / William Labov.
ISBN
9780813933269 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813933269 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813933276 (e-book)
0813933277 (e-book)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Physical Description
ix, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Page-Barbour lectures".
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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