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Publication details [#53477]

Walker, James. A. and Michael Hoffman. 2010. Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English. Language Variation and Change 22 (1) : 37–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language variation | multiculturalism | sociolinguistics | urban community

Language as a subject

English, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores the role of ethnicity in defining linguistic variation. Reporting on a large-scale project in the multicultural context of Toronto, the study advocates a mix of emic and etic approaches to social categorization, focusing on the Chinese and Italian speech communities.