Language Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High

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

Author: Penelope Eckert
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04/07/2000
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.01h x 5.97w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780631186045

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).

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