Investigating Variation: The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Series)

by Nancy C. Dorian

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Linguistic variation has been studied primarily in communities with the dominant social organization of our time: ethnic diversity, socioeconomic stratification, and a population size that precludes community-wide face-to-face interaction. In such communities variation correlates with ethnicity and class. Investigating Variation explores a different kind of social structure: small size, dense kinship ties, common occupation, and absence of social...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195385934

ISBN13:9780195385939

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.58 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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