Publications
Publication details [#13312]
Christian, Donna. 2000. Reflections of Language Heritage: Choice and Chance in Vernacular English Dialects. In Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold. Language in Action. New Studies of Language in Society. Essays in Honor of Roger W. Shuy. Hampton Press. pp. 230–246.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The author explains how stable and more or less recognizable varieties of English go back to earlier patterns of linguistic choice-making, themselves informed both by community-centered values and by personal dispositions.