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This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change.

Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics
Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change
Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it

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This volume presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. It includes the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change. These findings are developed further on the basis of a broad range of sociolinguistic studies in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the recently completed Atlas of North American English.

Successive chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it. Detailed portraits of individual leaders show that the women who lead linguistic change are distinguished from others by their general pattern of deviation from established norms of conformity. Mathematical models are developed to account for the linear incrementation of change in progress, and the transmission of change across generations.

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Title Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors
Author William Labov
Binding Hardcover
Edition Volume II
Pages 592
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2001-03-30
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
ISBN 9780631179153 / 0631179151
Weight 2.17 lbs (0.98 kg)
Dimensions 9.16 x 6.34 x 1.88 in (23.27 x 16.10 x 4.78 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Linguistic change
Library of Congress Catalog Number 92115935
Dewey Decimal Code 417.7

About the author

The author is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-editor of Language Variation and Change and is author of Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Language in the Inner City (1972), and Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors (Blackwell, 1994).

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Hardback. New. * written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change.