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Publication details [#37615]

Barbour, Stephen. 1987. Dialects and the teaching of a standard language: Some West German work. Language in Society 16 (1) : 227–243.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | sociolinguistics | standard1

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper questions the validity of the West German applied sociolinguistic view that a linguistic barrier separates the indigenous working and middle classes, thus creating (linguistic) disadvantages for the former.