Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change

by William Labov

Book Overview

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.

Contrary to the general expectation that mass...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813935881
• ISBN13: 9780813935881
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"