Labov, william sage research methods sage publications. Miriam meyerhoff has lived and taught sociolinguistics in places as diverse as new. His research is the foundation of the field of variationist sociolinguistics, which uses quantitative methods to uncover patterns in how people alter. We could, for example, take a group of lawyers, a group of file clerks, and a group of. Pdf current trends in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. Publication date 1973 topics sociolinguistics publisher philadelphia, university of pennsylvania press.
This classic volume, by a wellknown linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting. Author labov, william field methods of the project on. This introduction offers the editors rationale for the shape of the issue. A paper given at the georgetown round table in march of 2001, which examines the. William labov is an american linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. This paper will consider principles of methodology centering about the use of tests, elicitations, intuitions, and observ. William labov home page university of pennsylvania. The atlas of north american english and its impacts on approaches to dialect geography erik r. Internet or by searching backfiles of major newspapers in a library.
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