Publications

Publication details [#12469]

Gal, Susan. 1997. Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 376–390.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

Language as a subject

German, Austrian | Hungarian

Reprint of

Gal, Susan. 1978. Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in bilingual community.

Annotation

Report of a case in which women's language choices and their linguistic innovativeness are the linguistic expressions of their greater participation in social change.