This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the ...

Second edition of William Labov's groundbreaking study, in which he looks back on forty years of achievements in sociolinguistics.

The Atlas of North American English provides an overall view of the pronounciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. It is based on a telephone survey ...

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change ...

Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunciation and grammar capable of ...

This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in ...