Aspects of linguistic variation
Subtitle: proceedings of the Conference on Language Varieties, July 1980
By: edited by Steve Lander and Ken Reah.
Contributors: Lander, Steve.; Reah, Ken.; University of Sheffield. Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language.
Series: CECTAL Conference papers series,; no. 1
Publisher: Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, University of Sheffield
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Language and languages -- Variation -- Congresses.; Sociolinguistics -- Methodology -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"The Conference on Language Varieties ... took place on July 16th, 1980 at the University of Sheffield ... under the aegis of the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language"--P. iv.
Table of contents: title: Language variation and ethnicity in an American tri-racial group / Darrell A. Posey; title: Methodology and data generalisability in dialect research / Elisabeth Sommer; title: Methodology of data collection in sign language research / Margaret Deuchar; title: Towards an understanding of stylistic variation in language behaviour / Jitendra N. Thakerar; title: Semantic variation and fictional reference in oral tradition / Noel Williams.