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Publication details [#37548]

Weigel, M. Margaret and Ronald M. Weigel. 1985. Directive use in a migrant agricultural community: A test of Ervin-Tripp's hypotheses. Language in Society 14 (1) : 63–79.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

black | directive | migration | rural community

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper tests Ervin-Tripp's hypotheses on the determination of English directive variants in a predominantly black male migrant agricultural community in the eastern seabord region of the U.S.