Dialect divergence in America
By: William Labov
Series: Page-Barbour lectures
Publisher: University of Virginia Press; Brand: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813933269; 9780813933276
Subjects: Black English; Languages; English language; Sociolinguistics; Dialects; African Americans; Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: About language and language change; title: A hidden consensus; title: Hidden diversity; title: The growing divergence of black and white English; title: The politics of African American English; title: Language change as local politics; title: The political ideology of the northern cities shift; title: Putting it all together; title: Appendix: Summary statement on African American vernacular English.