Language Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High: 27 (Language in Society)

Eckert, Penelope

ISBN 10: 0631186042 / ISBN 13: 9780631186045

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High: 27 (Language in Society)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631186042
• ISBN 13: 9780631186045
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 390 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population.

About the Author

Penelope Eckert is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning in Menlo Park, CA. She has also taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Jocks and Burnouts (1989), editor of New Ways of Analyzing Sound Change (1991), and co-editor of The Cornell Lectures: Women in the Linguistic Profession (1990).