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Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular » Read Now
by William Labov. 414 pgs.

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...Black English Vernacular WILLIAM LABOV University of Pennsylvania Press...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Labov William Language in the inner city...the Black English...
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The Study of Dialect: An Introduction to Dialectology (Discussion of William Labov begins on p. 137) » Read Now
by K. M. Petyt. 236 pgs.

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...THE LANGUAGE LIBRARY Edited by David Crystal The Study of Dialect An introduction to dialectology K. M. Petyt THE STUDY OF DIALECT K. M. Petyt THE...
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American Earlier Black English: Morphological and Syntactic Variables » Read Now
by Edgar W. Schneider. 322 pgs.

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...respective situation. One exception is William Labov, who defined "Black English Vernacular...homogeneous and more or less invariable. William Labov was among the first to...
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Personal Narratives Reconsidered, in Journal of American Folklore » Read Now
by John A. Robinson. 28 pgs.

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...language until the seminal paper by William Labov and Joshua Waletzky. 1 These...1 William Labov and Joshua Waletzky, "Narrative...pp. 195-197. 2 William Labov, "The...
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Narrative Competence: Navajo Example of Peer Group Evaluation, in Journal of American Folklore » Read Now
by Margaret K. Brady. 24 pgs.

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...competent narrative performance. William Labov, in expanding on his previous...10 William Labov, Language in the Inner City...Press, 1972 ), and William Labov and Joshua...
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Narrative Analysis - or Why (and How) Sociologists Should Be Interested in Narrative, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now
by Roberto Franzosi. 38 pgs.

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...Mishler 1986:72). NARRATIVE AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Labov defined narrative as "one method of recapitulating...events which (it is inferred) actually occurred" Labov...
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Developing Narrative Structure ("Connectives as Markers of Narrative Macrostructure" begins on p. 41) » Read Now
by Allyssa Mccabe, Carole Peterson. 368 pgs.

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...status as Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, James Joyce, and...of some narratives. But, as Labov 1972 pointed out, evaluation...Discourse Processes, 1 , 1-13. Labov, W...
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Toward a History of American Linguistics (Chap. 10 "William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America") » Read Now
by E. F. K. Koerner. 317 pgs.

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Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas...
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Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and areas of research in the history of American Linguistics and also addresses contemporary debates and issues within linguistics.Topics covered include:* The sources of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis'* Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique gÃ©nÃ©rale * The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography* The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics*William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in America. Toward a History of American Linguistics will be invaluable reading for academics and advanced students within the fields of linguistics and the history of linguistics.
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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (Chap. 5 "The Anatomy of Syle-Shifting" by William Labov) » Read Now
by Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford. 341 pgs.

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The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity...
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The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.
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Narrative Gravity: Conversation, Cognition, Culture (Chap. 1 "Structural Simplicities: The Grammar and Context of Narrative" by William Labov) » Read Now
by Rukmini Bhaya Nair. 428 pgs.

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In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a...
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In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones of our most crucial beliefs. Nair's conclusion is that our stories really do make us up, just as much as we make up our stories.
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Language Change: Progress or Decay? ("Charting Fluctuations" begins on p. 112) » Read Now
by Jean Aitchison. 312 pgs.

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This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes that occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. This substantially...
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This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes that occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. This substantially revised third edition includes two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. New sections have been added to other chapters, as well as over 150 new references. The work remains nontechnical in style and accessible to the reader with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
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