LEADER 04706nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910457274203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-31261-1 010 $a9786613312617 010 $a90-272-7629-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063778 035 $a(EBL)794841 035 $a(OCoLC)759101620 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001101535 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11664654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101535 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11067560 035 $a(PQKB)11690422 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC794841 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL794841 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509530 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063778 100 $a19951026d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVariation and change in language and society$b[electronic resource] $epapers in honor of William Labov /$fedited by Gregory R. Guy ... [et al.] 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub.$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (454 p.) 225 1 $aAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory,$x0304-0763 ;$vv. 127 225 1 $aTowards a social science of language ;$vv. 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-3630-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTOWARDS A SOCIAL SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Foreword; I. The Social Organization of Variation and Change; Dialect Typology: Isolation, Social Network and Phonological Structure; Dialectand Style in the Speech of Upper Class Philadelphia; (ay) Goes to the City Exploring the expressive use of variation; SocialClass and Language Variation in Bilingual Speech Communities; ""Why do women do this?"" Sex and Gender Differences in Speech; Interactional Conditioning of Linguistic Heterogeneity; Peaksand Glides in Southern States Short-a 327 $aDenasalization of the Velar Nasal in Tokyo Japanese: Observations in Real TimeII. The Linguistic Structure of Variation and Change; Variation and Drift: Loss of Agreement in Germanic; Turning Different at the Turn of the Century: 19th Century Brazilian Portuguese; Form and Function in Linguistic Variation; The History of the Ancient Hebrew Modal System and Labov's Rule of Compensatory Structural Change; Phonetic Evidence for the Evolution of Lexical Classes: The Case of a Montreal French Vowel Shift; Phonological Rule Set Complexity in a Very Large Vocabulary Word Recognition System 327 $aIII. African-American Varieties of EnglishThe Origins of Variation in Guyanese; The Urbanization of Creole Phonology: Variation and Change in Jamaican (KYA); CopulaVariabilityin Jamaican Creole and African American Vernacular English: A Reanalysis of DeCamp's Texts; Contraction and Deletion in African American Vernacular English: Creole History and Relationship to Euro-American English; Dimensions of a Theory of Econolinguistics; William Labov: A Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic dynamics of variation and change (II). The study of African American English, and other language varieties in the Americas spoken by people of African 410 0$aAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.$nSeries IV,$pCurrent issues in linguistic theory ;$vv. 127. 410 0$aTowards a social science of language ;$vv. 1. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xVariation 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $aLinguistic change 606 $aBlack English$xVariation 606 $aCreole dialects$xVariation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xVariation. 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 615 0$aLinguistic change. 615 0$aBlack English$xVariation. 615 0$aCreole dialects$xVariation. 676 $a417 701 $aGuy$b Gregory R$0181134 701 $aLabov$b William$0157037 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457274203321 996 $aVariation and change in language and society$92470408 997 $aUNINA