TY  - BOOK
AU  - Labov,William
TI  - Dialect diversity in America: the politics of language change 
T2  - Page-Barbour lectures
SN  - 9780813933269 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PE2841 .L33 2012
U1  - 427/.973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - United States
KW  - Variation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Languages
KW  - Black English
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; About language and language change -- A hidden consensus -- Hidden diversity -- The growing divergence of black and white English -- The politics of African American English -- Language change as local politics -- The political ideology of the northern cities shift -- Putting it all together -- Appendix: Summary statement on African American vernacular English
ER  -