Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2
Social Factors
Language in Society (Band Nr. 2)
1. Auflage Januar 2001
592 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several
decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of
linguistic change.
* Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics
* Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project
designed to establish the social location of the leaders of
linguistic change
* Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity,
gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of
linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high
density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high
proportion of weak ties outside of it
Notational Conventions.
Part I: The Speech Community.
1. The Darwinian Paradox.
2. The Study of Linguistic Change and Variation in
Philadelphia.
3. Stable Sociolinguistic Variables.
4. The Philadelphia Vowel System.
Part II: Social Class, Gender, Neighborhood, and Ethnicity.
5. Location of the Leaders in the Socioeconomic Hierarchy.
6. Subjective Dimensions of Change in Progress.
7. Neighborhood and Ethnicity.
8. The Gender Paradox.
9. The Intersection of Gender, Age, and Social Class.
Part III: The Leaders of Linguistic Change.
10. Social Networks.
11. Resolving the Gender Paradox.
12. Portraits of the Leaders.
Part IV: Transmission, Incrementation, and Continuation.
13. Transmission.
14. Incrementation.
15. Continuation.
16. Conclusion.
References.
Index.
decades of research into the social motivation of phonetic
variation and change in some American English dialects... It will
also provide rich methodological guidance and material data for
scholars interested in the social underpinnings of sound change."
Multilingua
"William Labov's work is the cornerstone of quantitative
sociolinguistics, and his pre-eminence in the field is assured for
now and for some time to come. He has taught a whole generation of
scholars the skills of careful and accountable fieldwork and of
analysing linguistic data collected in the field, and in this
respect his work has been inspirational." Journal of
Linguistics
"It was the unanimous decision of the Committee to award this
year's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award to Labov's book. The
Committee feels this book is a landmark in the study of language
change. It not only presents a coherent and compelling account of
the internal mechanics of phonological change, but successfully
integrates this account with theoretical advances in grammatical
theory, sociolinguistics, and dialectology, as well as historical
linguistics. Labov's scholarship in this work is unsurpassed and
ranges from a proposed solution to the Neogrammarian controversy,
to an account of the changing dialect situation in the United
States, to proposals for applying the theory of lexical phonology
to the explanation of a set of historical paradoxes, and to
exploring the limits of functional explanation."
LSA
"This is a book that anyone interested in social factors in
language change will want to read." Journal of Multilingual
& Multicultural Development.
