Publications

Publication details [#4981]

Hughes, Everett C. 1970. The linguistic division of labor in industrial and urban societies. Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics 23 : 103–117.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

industrial society | language choice | urban community

Language as a subject

English | French

Annotation

H. addresses the issue of the functions of two languages (English and French) in a modern industrial community (Montreal), where the difference of function cannot be attributed to the characteristics of the languages themselves.

Reprints

Fishman, Joshua A. 1972. In Fishman, Joshua A., ed. Advances in the sociology of language 2: Selected studies and applications. Mouton. pp. 296–309.