Dialect diversity in America the politics of language change

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Labov, William (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville London University of Virginia Press 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • About language and language change
  • A hidden consensus
  • Hidden diversity
  • The growing divergence of black and white English
  • The politics of African American English
  • Language change as local politics
  • The political ideology of the northern cities shift
  • Putting it all together
  • Appendix: Summary statement on African American vernacular English