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Publication details [#1743]

Bright, William O. 1966. Language, social stratification, and cognitive orientation. Sociological Inquiry 36 (2) : 313–318.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

caste | lexical variability | phonological variability | sociolect | syntactic variability

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/soin

Annotation

B. suggests that caste dialects may differ not only in phonologically definable ways, but also in important ways which are reflected in differences of grammar and vocabulary which basically derive from different semantic structures.

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. 57–64.