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The Language of Life and Death
We share the experience of others through the stories they tell of the crucial events in their lives. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention …
Conversations with Strangers
Telling Stories
Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate …
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3
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 …
Dialect Diversity in America
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 …
Language in the Inner City
With the recent controversy in the Oakland, California school district about Ebonics—or as it is referred to in sociolinguistic circles, African American Vernacular English or …
Social Stratification of English in New York City
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 …
Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools
In today's classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book …
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3
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 …
Dialect Diversity in America
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 …
Out of the Mouths of Slaves
Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic BookWhen the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics" and claimed that it "is not a black dialect or any …
Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1
This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. Demonstrates the social as …