拉波夫的全名为WilliamLabov。他的名字跟社会一样,举世闻名。拉波夫是社会语言学的创始人,但他并不喜欢社会语言学这个名称:Ihaveresistedthetermsociolingisticsfor manyyears.(我拒绝社会语言学这个名称已经好几年了。)为什么呢?他说:since it implies that there can be a successfullinguistictheoryorpracticewhichis...
Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula - Labov - 1969 () Citation Context ...pproaches have tackled this issues by combining views andsmethodologies of variationist sociolinguistics with notions of generative theory. Thesesinclude, on the one hand, the variable rule ...
StudiesinSociolinguisticsbyWilliamLabov.Beijing:BeijingLanguageandCulture UniversityPress,2001. withSharonAshandCharlesBoberg.AtlasofNorthAmericanEnglish:Phonologyand Phonetics.Berlin:Mouton/deGruyter.2006. PrinciplesofLinguisticchange.VolumeIII:CognitiveandCulturalFactors.Oxford: ...