Publications

Publication details [#12453]

Labov, William. 1997. The Social Stratification or (r) in New York City Department Stores. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 168–178.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

empiricism | naturalness | pronunciation | quantification | social stratification | sociolinguistics | variability

Language as a subject

English, American

Reprint of

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

Annotation

A seminal empirical study of language variation: pronunciation patterns as markers of social stratification.