The study of social dialects in American English
By: Walt Wolfram, Ralph W. Fasold
Contributors: Fasold, Ralph W., joint author.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780138587871
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: English language -- Social aspects -- United States; Speech and social status -- United States; Linguistics -- Research -- United States; Americanisms
Notes: Bibliography: p. 218-227.
Table of contents: title: Foundations of sociolinguistics; title: Social dialects as a field of inquiry; title: Field methods in the study of social dialects; title: The social variable; title: The linguistic variable; title: Socially diagnostic phonological features; title: Socially diagnostic grammatical features; title: Social dialects and education