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Dialect Diversity in America

The Politics of Language Change

Dialect Diversity in America( )
Author: Labov, William
Series title:Page-Barbour Lectures
ISBN:978-0-8139-3588-1
Publication Date:Jan 2014
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $22.50
Book Description:

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.



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