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Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change (Page-Barbour Lectures)
Dialect Diversity in America The Politics of Language Change - Page-Barbour Lectures
Author: William Labov
The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Divergence in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of North American English are...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813933269
ISBN-10: 0813933269
Publication Date: 11/26/2012
Pages: 184
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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