The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
Contributors: J. K. Chambers (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780631218036
First sentence: In an early discussion of linguistic methodology, William Labov classified the different subfields of linguistics according to whether their practitioners were primarily to be found working in "the library, the bush, the closet, the laboratory... [or] the street" (Labov 1972:99).