The Social Stratification of English in New York City

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Название: The Social Stratification of English in New York City / Социальная стратификация английского языка в Нью-Йорке

Автор: William Labov

Издательство: Cambridge University Press

Год: 2006

Страниц: 498

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Качество: отличное (вычитанный текст, цв. обложка)

Язык: english / английский

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Second Edition / Второе издание.

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 have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings, and achievements. In over forty pages of new material, he explores the unforeseen implications of his earlier work, addresses the political issues involved, and evaluates the success of newer approaches to sociolinguistic investigation. In doing so, he reveals the outstanding accomplishments of sociolinguistics since his original study, which laid the foundations for studying language variation, introduced the crucial concept of the linguistic variable, and showed how variation across age groups is an indicator of language change. Bringing Labov’s pioneering study into the twenty-first century, this classic volume will remain the benchmark in the field for years to come.

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Introductory note

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition: forty years later

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 (r) in New York City department stores

4 The isolation of contextual styles

5 The linguistic interview

6 The survey of the Lower East Side

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

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

IV SYNTHESIS

14 The structure of the New York City vowel system

15 1966–2006

Glossary of linguistic symbols and terminology

Appendix A Questionnaire for the ALS survey

Appendix B Anonymous observations of casual speech

Appendix C Analysis of losses through moving of the MFY sample population

Appendix D Analysis of the non-respondents: the television interview

Appendix E The out-of-town speakers

Bibliography

Index