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ERIC Number: EJ338932
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1986
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Linguistic Variation, Context, and Meaning: A Case of "-ing/in'" Variation in North American Workers' Speech.
Huspek, Michael R.
Language in Society, v15 n2 p149-63 Jun 1986
Suggests an alternative approach to the variable rule method of accounting for linguistic variability. This alternative approach, which is sensitive to social context and the relevance of meaning, is used to support an analysis of "-ing/in'" variability in some North American industrial workers' speech. (SED)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Interviews, Language Attitudes, Language Styles, Morphophonemics, Motivation, North American English, Pragmatics, Social Environment, Sociolinguistics, Working Class
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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