Investigating Variation: The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting

by Nancy C. Dorian

Book Overview

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"