The article discusses the significant contributions of William Labov to the field of sociolinguistics, highlighting his pioneering work in studying language variation and change. Labov's empirical and rigorous approach to language research, particularly in African American vernacular English, laid the ...
Year:2013 The 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science was presented to William Labov for establishing the cognitive basis of language variation and change through rigorous analysis of linguistic data, and for the study of non-standard dialects with significant social and cultural...
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...
Yet over the past ten years, I and others who observelanguage in use have become increasingly doubtful ofarguments for the controlling effect of meaning on languageand language change.(然而,过去的十几年来,我和其他研究语用的人越发怀疑那些认为控制语言和语言演变的因素是语义的论点。)(1987) ...
with Weinreich, Uriel, and Marvin Herzog. Empirical foundations for a theory of language change. In W. Lehmann and Y. Malkiel (eds.), Directions for Historical Linguistics. Austin: U. of Texas Press. The Non-Standard Negro Vernacular: Some Practical Suggestions. In Position Papers from ...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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...
He is considered the founder of modern sociolinguistics, initiating a paradigm of studying variation and change that has been termed 'correlative,' in that it establishes systematic correlations between social categories like class, age, sex, ethnicity, and style as independent variables, and the ...