Publications

Publication details [#3584]

Gal, Susan. 1978. Peasant men can't get wives: Language change and sex roles in bilingual community. Language in Society 7 (1) : 1–16.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | innovation | language change | sex

Language as a subject

German | Hungarian

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Report of a case in which women's language choices (between German and Hungarian in a small community in Austria) and their linguistic innovativeness are the linguistic expressions of their greater participation in social change.

Reprints

Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer. 1984. In Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer, eds. Language in use: Readings in sociolinguistics. Prentice-Hall. pp. 292–304.

Gal, Susan. 1997. Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 376–390.