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Publication details [#10718]

Labov, William. 1968. The reflection of social processes in linguistic structures. In Fishman, Joshua A., ed. Readings in the sociology of language. Mouton. pp. 240–251.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | social constraint | syntactic variability

Annotation

Some general remarks on the fact that certain elements of linguistic structure are subject to systematic variation as a result of the influence of temporal change and extra-linguistic social processes.

Translations

Holzer, Horst and Karl Steinbacher. 1972. Der Ausdruck sozialer Prozesse in linguistischen Strukturen. In Holzer, Horst and Karl Steinbacher, eds. Sprache und Gesellschaft. Hoffman und Campe. pp. 338–350.