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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william labov”
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  • Dialect Diversity in America

    The Politics of Language Change

    by William Labov ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of North American English are increasingly diverging from one another over time ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Language of Life and Death

    The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative

    by William Labov ...
    We share the experience of others through the stories they tell of the crucial events in their lives. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done. While remaining true to the facts, narrators use linguistic devices to present themselves in the best possible light and change the listener's perception of who is to blame ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Conversations with Strangers

    by William Labov ...
    Series series Elements in Sociolinguistics
    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. Interviews with strangers are the backbone of this research: the ten American English speakers appearing here were all ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3

    Cognitive and Cultural Factors

    by William Labov ...
    Series Book 36 - Language in Society
    Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

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  • Talking Back, Talking Black

    Truths About America's Lingua Franca

    by John McWhorter ...
    “Superb.” —Steven Pinker“An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication, as well as the still unfolding journey that has led to its creation. . . . [His] intelligent breeziness is the source of the book’s considerable charm.” —New Yorker“Talking Back, Talking Black is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Skin That We Speak

    Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

    Edited by Lisa Delpit, Joanne Kilgour Dowdy ...
    "Lucid, accessible" research on classroom language bias for educators and "parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools" ( Publishers Weekly).In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spoken Soul

    The Story of Black English

    by John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford ...
    In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university"A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speaking Pittsburghese

    The Story of a Dialect

    by Barbara Johnstone ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This book explores the history of Pittsburghese, the language of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area as it is imagined and used by Pittsburghers. Pittburghese is linked to local identity so strongly that it is alluded to almost every time people talk about what Pittsburgh is like, or what it means to be a Pittsburgher. But what happened during the second half of the 20th century to reshape a largely ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Analytic Approaches to Aesthetics: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Peter Lamarque ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Psychic Hold of Slavery

    Legacies in American Expressive Culture

    by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Aida Levy-Hussen, Calvin Warren, Margo Natalie Crawford, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, GerShun Avilez, Brandon J. Manning0, Michael Chaney1, Douglas A. Jones Jr.2 ...
    What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Bad Language

    Are Some Words Better Than Others?

    by Edwin Battistella ...
    Is today's language at an all-time low? Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English? Is slang like my bad or hook up improper? Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell? Can you write Who do you trust? rather than Whom do you trust? Linguist Edwin Battistella takes a hard look at traditional notions of bad language, arguing that they are often based in ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Word On The Street

    Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English

    by John Mcwhorter ...
    Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments, linguist John McWhorter considers speech patterns and regional accents to demonstrate just how the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD