References (20)Select list Of William Labov’s writings
For a much more complete bibliography, see Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov ed. by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin et al., vol.II: Social Interaction and Discourse Structures (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1996), 339–352.
1963. “The Social Motivation of Language Change”. Word 191.273–309. (Repr. in Labov 1972b.1–42.) [M. A. thesis, Columbia University, New York, 1963.]
1964. “Phonological Correlates of Social Stratification”. The Ethnography of Communication ed. by John J. Gumperz & Dell H. Hymes, 164–176. Menasha, Wis.: American Anthropological Association.
1965. “On the Mechanism of Linguistic Change”. Report on the 16th Annual Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies ed. by Charles W. Kreidler, 91–114. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press. (Repr. in Labov 1972b. 160–182.)
1966a. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Washington, D. C.: Center for Applied Linguistics. [3rd printing, 1982, with a “Preface to the Third Edition” (iii–iv), an index (471–483), and a historically interesting “Postscript” (484–501). Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1964.]
1966b. “Hypercorrection by the Lower Middle Class as a Factor of Linguistic Change”. Sociolinguistics: Proceedings of the UCLA Conference ed. by William Bright, 83–113. The Hague: Mouton. (Repr. in Labov 1972b.122–142.)
1966c. “The Effect of Social Mobility on Linguistic Behavior”. Explorations in Sociolinguistics ed. with an introd. by Stanley Lieberson, 58–75. The Hague: Mouton, 1967.
1969a. “The Logic of Non-Standard English”. Linguistics and the Teaching of Standard English to Speakers of Other Languages and Dialects ed. by James E. Alatis, 1–44. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press.
1969b. “Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula”. Language 451.715–762.
1970. “The Study of Language in Its Social Context”. Studium Generale 201.30–87. (Repr. in Labov 1972b.183–259.)
1972a. “The Social Setting of Linguistic Change”. Labov 1972b.260–325. (Also published in Current Trends in Linguistics ed. by Thomas A. Sebeok, vol.XI1, 195–251. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.)
1972b. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1972c. Language in the Inner City: Studies in the black English vernacular. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1982. “Building on Empirical Foundations”. Perspectives on Historical Linguistics ed. by Winfred P. Lehmann & Yakov Malkiel, 17–92. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1992. “Evidence for Regular Change in English Dialect Geography”. History of Englishes: New methods and interpretations in historical linguistics ed. by Matti Rissanenet al., 42–71. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
1994. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume I1: Internal factors. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.
1997a. “Co-Existent Systems in African-American Vernacular English”. The Structure of African-American English: Structure, history and use ed. by Salikoko Mufwene, John Rickford, Guy Bailey & John Baugh, 110–153. London & New York: Routledge.
1997b. (With Sharon Ash). “Understanding Birmingham”. Language Variety in the South Revisited ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally & Robin Sabino, 508–573. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press.
2001a. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume II1: Social factors. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.
2001b. “Applying Our Knowledge of African English to the Problem of Raising Reading Levels in Inner-City Schools’. African American English: State of the art ed. by Sonja Lanehart, 299–317. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
In press. (With Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg). Atlas of North American English: Phonology and phonetics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Cited by (4)
Cited by four other publications
Spitzmüller, Jürgen
2022. Variationslinguistik: Sprachliche Variation als sozialer Index. In Soziolinguistik, ► pp. 119 ff.
Larrivée, Pierre
2018. La notion de variation dans le langage : quelques repères. Corela :HS-26
Kretzschmar, William A.
2015. A Suitable End. American Speech 90:3 ► pp. 377 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 3 august 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.