Publications

Publication details [#5852]

Labov, William, ed. 1972. Language in the inner city: Studies in the black English vernacular. University of Pennsylvania Press. xxiv + 412 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

urban community

Language as a subject

Articles in this volume

Labov, William. Some sources of reading problems for speakers of the Black English vernacular. 3–35

Labov, William. Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula. 65–129

Labov, William. Negative attraction and negative concord. 130–196

Labov, William. The logic of nonstandard English. 201–240

Labov, William. The relation of reading failure to peer-group status. 241–254

Labov, William. The linguistic consequences of being a lame. 255–292

Labov, William. Rules for ritual insults. 297–353

Labov, William. The transformation of experience in narrative syntax. 354–396

Reprints

Labov, William. 1997. Rules for Ritual Insults. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 472–486.