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Dialects & Sociolinguistics

The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich's quip — recorded by him in 1945 from an audience member at a YIVO lecture — is the field's epigram. There is no purely...

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The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich's quip — recorded by him in 1945 from an audience member at a YIVO lecture — is the field's epigram. There is no purely linguistic distinction between a language and a dialect. The distinction is political. Key sections include: Dia · lects.; Opening A language is a dialect with an army.; Chapter I Before sociolinguistics.; Chapter II William Labov.; Chapter III The linguistic variable.; Chapter IV The class stratification of speech.; Chapter V The Northern Cities Shift.; Chapter VI Peter Trudgill and the Norwich study.; Chapter VII African American Vernacular English.; Chapter VIII The history and politics of AAVE..

Key sections

  • 01Dia · lects.
  • 02Opening A language is a dialect with an army.
  • 03Chapter I Before sociolinguistics.
  • 04Chapter II William Labov.
  • 05Chapter III The linguistic variable.
  • 06Chapter IV The class stratification of speech.
  • 07Chapter V The Northern Cities Shift.
  • 08Chapter VI Peter Trudgill and the Norwich study.

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  1. 01Dia · lects.
  2. 02Opening A language is a dialect with an army.
  3. 03Chapter I Before sociolinguistics.
  4. 04Chapter II William Labov.
  5. 05Chapter III The linguistic variable.
  6. 06Chapter IV The class stratification of speech.
  7. 07Chapter V The Northern Cities Shift.
  8. 08Chapter VI Peter Trudgill and the Norwich study.
  9. 09Chapter VII African American Vernacular English.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The history and politics of AAVE.
  11. 11Chapter IX The dialect regions of America.
  12. 12Chapter X Britain — RP, Estuary, regional.
  13. 13Chapter XI Style, register, and audience design.
  14. 14Chapter XII Penelope Eckert and the high-school study.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Code-switching.
  16. 16Chapter XIV Identity and indexicality.
  17. 17Chapter XV Gender and language.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Race, ethnicity, and linguistic profiling.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The making of standards.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The multilingual norm.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Social networks and dense ties.
  22. 22Chapter XX Language on the internet.
  23. 23Chapter XXI How language changes.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Schools and the dialect problem.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII The methods.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Pidgins, creoles, and contact varieties.
  27. 27Chapter XXV Language ideologies.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Twenty-five works.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII What this field is for.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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