Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed
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Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed

About this book

William Labov (b. 1927) has been a driving force in linguistics for over four decades. Throughout North America, and in much of the rest of the world, his name is synonymous with sociolinguistics. This new Guide for the Perplexed summarizes Labov's work in a number of subfields, including historical linguistics, discourse analysis and not least sociolinguistics. It also sketches a broader context for appreciating Labov's major innovations. His considerable and growing legacy is discussed with comparative glances to other ways of approaching language within linguistics and in neighboring disciplines. Since the publication of The Social Stratification of English in New York City in 1966, Labov has pushed the boundaries of sociolinguistics decade after decade but there has been no one volume guide to his work. This is that guide.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. List of Figures
  6. Chapter 1: The challenges of Labov
  7. Chapter 2: Linguistics and sociolinguistics before Labov
  8. Chapter 3: How to establish a field as a graduate student
  9. Chapter 4: A variationist approach to language
  10. Chapter 5: Speech styles and discourse
  11. Chapter 6: The “socio” of sociolinguistics
  12. Chapter 7: Labov as historical linguist
  13. Chapter 8: African American English: Lessons learned, lessons taught
  14. Chapter 9: The revolution at 50
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index