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Social Dialects

Social Dialects is a linguistic variety defined as a form of language associated with a particular social group, distinguished from other dialects by patterns of language use that correlate with social factors such as class, education, occupation, or ethnicity.

157

Publications

14.1K

Citations

207

Authors

107

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

14

Variants

Sociolects

Parents

Children

Publications

157

The Social Stratification of English in New York City.

Harry J. Crockett, William Labov · American Sociological Review · 1968 · 3.1K citations

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<i>An introduction to sociolinguistics</i>

Peter Bakker · Language in Society · 2007 · 690 citations

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<b>On dialect: Social and geographical perspectives</b> . By Peter Trudgill. New York: New York University Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 240. $27.50.

Malcah Yaeger‐Dror · Language · 1986 · 607 citations

, , +12

Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model

Lesley Milroy, James Milroy · Language in Society · 1992 · 498 citations

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Language and masculinity

Bettina Baron · Journal of Pragmatics · 1998 · 459 citations

, , +15

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Authors

207

  1. WW
    Walt Wolfram

    North Carolina State University, United States

    6 publications · 620 citations

    6

    h-index

  2. HG
    Howard Giles

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    3 publications · 296 citations

    3

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  3. MB
    Mary Bucholtz

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 171 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. NB
    Nancy Bermudez

    California State University, Northridge, United States

    2 publications · 171 citations

    2

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  5. UR
    Unn Røyneland

    University of Oslo, Norway

    2 publications · 148 citations

    2

    h-index

1–5 of 207

Institutions

107

  1. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    336 citations

  2. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    3.4K citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    61 citations

  4. Center for Applied Linguistics

    Washington D.C., United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    773 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    366 citations

  6. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    207 citations

  7. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    797 citations

  8. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    192 citations

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Venues

  1. American Speech

    9 publications · 342 citations

    9

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  2. Language in Society

    8 publications · 2.1K citations

    8

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  3. Language

    7 publications · 1.3K citations

    7

    h-index

  4. Journal of English Linguistics

    7 publications · 349 citations

    7

    h-index

  5. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 6 publications · 369 citations

    6

    h-index

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