William Labov launched the branch of language studies known as language variation and change or (more vaguely) sociolinguistics with several influential studies in the 1960s and seminal publications in the early 1970s. As the discipline spread to universities and research institutes in North America ...
It is concluded that the rejection of the functionalist hypothesis does not affect the core of Labov's work, which focuses on the correlation of social and linguistic structures. However, it leads to a very different conception of the nature of language variation and change.ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR...
He studied and taught at Columbia University (1961) before becoming professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. He is considered the founder of modern sociolinguistics, initiating a paradigm of studying variation and change that has been termed 'correlative,' in that it ...
Though the diachronic dimension of linguistic variation is often identified with linguistic change, many stable linguistic variables with no synchronic mot... W Labov,M Yaeger,R Steiner 被引量: 331发表: 1972年 Basic Studies on Reading Zimet, William Labov, Vera P. John, Vivian M. Horner, Tomi...
The aims of the publication of Language VariationandChangearetostudylanguagevariationandchangeinasystematicway andtrytoexplaintheinteractionsbetweenlanguage,cultureandsocietythrough analysisoflanguagestructuresinactualuses.Therearetwodistinctivefeaturesfor theaboveaims:firstly,languagevariationisasortofsociolinguisticstudy...
Labov’s work on variation, although focused on phonological change, was also extended into other areas, such as semantic and morphosyntactic variation. Among his major contributions to the study of diffusion patterns in linguistic change processes is the discovery that women are consistently at the ...
Labov is widely recognized as the founder of sociolinguistics, the quantitative study of language structure and use. Through detailed analysis of speech across dialect boundaries and over time, Labov has identified general principles governing language variation and change, while shedding light on how ...
William Labov: An Appreciationdoi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-051216-040225William Labov launched the branch of language studies known as language variation and change or (more vaguely) sociolinguistics with several influential studiesSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Towards a social science of language. Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume I. Variation and change in language and society. Edited by Gregory Guy, Crawford Feagin, John Baugh, and Deborah Schiffrindoi:info:doi/10.1075/jpcl.14.1.11mcwJohn McWhorter...
It is concluded that the rejection of the functionalist hypothesis does not affect the core of Labov's work, which focuses on the correlation of social and linguistic structures. However, it leads to a very different conception of the nature of language variation and change....