Publications
Publication details [#50232]
Kerswill, Paul. 1993. Rural dialect speakers in an urban speech community: the role of dialect contact in defining a sociolinguistic concept. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 3 (1) : 33–56. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Journal WWW
Annotation
Based on Labov's work, this article discusses the applicability of the notion of speech community in urban centres -like Bergen, in western Norway- characterised by a high rate of dialect mixing.