Böcker av William (University of Pennsylvania) Labov

"This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of what has become the basic framework for studying language variation and change"--

Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: accounts of the danger of death, violence, premonitions and large-scale community conflicts. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done.

This groundbreaking study of New York speech founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, presenting a pioneering new account of social variation in language. In this second edition, Labov reviews forty years of findings in sociolinguistics, and brings the reader up to date on the methods, results and achievements of sociolinguistic research.