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John L. Fischer |
1958 |
First systematic study of the relationships between language variation and social organization |
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Louis Gauchat |
1905 |
Work on the French dialects of Charney, Switzerland |
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Jackson (1830) |
Categorised a variety of non-standard features |
"Low, very low, exceedingly low, vilely low" etc. |
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William Labov (1963) |
Martha's Vineyard |
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Norway, Sweden and Denmark |
"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. " |
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William Labov (1966) |
Determined that NYC could be a speech community |
R-lessness was a local feature... |
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Lesley and James Milroy (1980s) |
Language change in Belfast |
Social networks were crucial! |
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Li (1994) |
Chinese immigrants and their children maintained their use of Chinese if they were a part of a tight, local network associated with the True Jesus Church. |
Social network theory |
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Penelope Eckert (1992) |
Michigan High School - jocks and burnouts |
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Kachru (1985) |
Concentric circles of English |
Inner, outer, expanding |
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C. Wright Milla, 1956 |
"In the big city, the girl who works on 34th Street cannot successfully claim as much prestige as the one who works on Fifth Avenue..." |
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Basil Bernsteun (early 1960s) |
Working class children tend not to acquire the elaborated code |
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