Publications

Publication details [#35769]

Milroy, Lesley, Wei Li and Suzanne Moffatt. 1991. Discourse patterns and fieldwork strategies in urban settings: Some methodological problems for researchers in bilingual communities. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 12 (4) : 287–300.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | minority language | sociolinguistics | speech community | urban community

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article assesses the contribution of Labov's and Gumperz's procedures and principles with regard to the question of observer effect in the analysis of linguistic minorities at community-level.