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Publication details [#35071]

Edwards, Walter F. 1992. Sociolinguistic behavior in a Detroit inner-city black neighborhood. Language in Society 21 (1) : 93–115.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language variation | social status | sociolinguistics | urban community

Language as a subject

English, American | English, Black

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that Social Network Theory constitutes an efficient approach for explaining intracommunity sociolinguistic variation in the Black working-class inner-city neighborhood of Detroit.