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 ...
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...
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) ...
The Intersection of Sex and Social Class in the Course of Linguistic Change Two general principles of sexual differentiation emerge from previous sociolinguistic studies: that men use a higher frequency of nonstandard forms than wo... W Labov - 《Language Variation & Change》 被引量: 794发表: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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: 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...