The Social Stratification of English in New York City

by William Labov

Book Overview

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521821223
• ISBN13: 9780521821223
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"