Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2 Social Factors [Hardcover]

• Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics
• Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change
• Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it

Notational Conventions.

Part I: The Speech Community.

1. The Darwinian Paradox.

The Social Effects of Language Change.

The Parallels Between Biological and Linguistic Evolution.

Earlier Proposals for the Causes of Sound Change.

Differend Kinds of Sound Change.

The Narrow Interface between Language and Society.

The Social Location of the Innovators.

Individual, Group, Community.

2. The Study of Linguistic Change and Variation in Philadelphia:.

Sampling the Community.

The City of Philadelphia.

The Exploratory Phase.

The Neighborhood Study.

The Telephone Survey.

3. Stable Sociolinguistic Variables:.

The Necessary Background for the Study of Change in Progress.

Variables to be Examined in this Chapter.

The Stability of the Stable Variables.

The Sociolinguistic Sample of Philadelphia.

Cross-tabulation of (dh), Class, and Style.