Publications

Publication details [#53519]

Stanford, James N. 2010. The role of marriage in linguistic contact and variation: Two Hmong dialects in Texas. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (1) : 89–115.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | dialect1 | language contact | language variation | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Hmong

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This study argues that cross-dialectal marriages merit variationist attention for their role in dialect and identity construction. The analysis focuses on marriages between immigrant speakers of two distinct Hmong dialects in Texas.