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Publication details [#1740]

Bright, William O. 1960. Social dialect and language history. Current Anthropology 1 (5-6) : 424–425.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | sociolect

Journal WWW

www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/index.html

Annotation

B. argues for the desirability of detailed studies of social dialects and their interactions in contemporary societies, in view of implications for historical change.

Reprints

Bright, William O. 1976. In Bright, William O., ed. Variation and change in language. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 32–38.