Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2 : Social Factors (9780631179160)

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

Product details

• Format Paperback | 592 pages
• Dimensions 161 x 231 x 33mm | 888g
• Publication date 06 Apr 2001
• Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Imprint Blackwell Publishers
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Volume II ed.
• ISBN10 063117916X
• ISBN13 9780631179160
• Bestsellers rank 527,919

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