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Publication details [#12442]

Labov, William. 1997. Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 23–24.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | social context | sociolinguistics

Reprint of

Labov, William, ed. 1972. Sociolinguistic patterns. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Annotation

On the impossibility of a study of language that ignores its social and contextual basis.