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| Title: | Penelope Eckert, Linguistic variation as social practice. |
| Author: | William Labov |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~labov/home.html |
| Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Linguistic Field: | Sociolinguistics |
| Abstract: | The first quotation on the back cover of this book begins, "This long-awaited volume demonstrates that Eckert is the sociolinguist." Some people have expressed the view that this is an unusually strong statement. Since I wrote it myself, I am faced with the clear choice in this review of defending it or apologizing for it. |
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This article appears in Language in Society Vol. 31, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site . |
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