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Publication details [#61737]

Stanford, James N. 2016. A call for more diverse sources of data: Variationist approaches in non-English contexts. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (4) : 525–541.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | sociolinguistics | source-of-information | testing | variability

Person as a subject

Labov, W.

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores the application of Labov's (1966) principles and methods to non-English language communities, evaluating the influence and pertinence of those half-century-old conceptions in novel, sociolinguistically varied contexts, and inviting more studies in new domain sites.