Publications

Publication details [#26438]

Eckert, Penelope. 2000. Linguistic variation as social practice. Blackwell Publishers. XVI+240 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | motivation | sound change

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

This synthesis of E.'s ethnographic study of a suburban Detroit high school -'Belten High'-, and of her analyses of linguistic/sound change in progress, offers social explanation for linguistic behavior and thoroughly examines the social motivation of sound change.

Reviewed by

Labov, William. 2002. Review of $Linguistic variation as social practice.