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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 sociolinguistics
  • Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change
  • Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 22/01/2001
    ISBN13: 9780631179153, 978-0631179153
    ISBN10: 0631179151

    Number of Pages: 592

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    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 sociolinguistics
    • Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change
    • Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it

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