Publications

Publication details [#5849]

Labov, William. 1972. On the mechanism of linguistic change. In Gumperz, John J. and Dell H. Hymes, eds. Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 512–538.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | social context

Annotation

L. argues that linguistic change can only be explained with reference to the interdependence between initial relations within the system and the context of the speech community.

Reprints

Labov, William. 1972. In Labov, William, ed. Sociolinguistic patterns. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 160–182.