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PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE
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| By: |
William Labov |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444327887 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444327885 |
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| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2010 |
| Series: |
Language in Society |
| Pages: |
1720 |
| Description: |
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this three-volume set examines the historical, social, cognitive, and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change. |
| Synopsis: |
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this three-volume set examines the historical, social, cognitive, and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change. * Presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and motivation of linguistic change * Develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics * Includes the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change * Documents the rapid changes in progress in the cities of America and England * A newly-complete trilogy that has shaped the course of variationist sociolinguistic inquiry |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
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