Chapter 6
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Social Variation in American English
Eble, C. C. (1996). Slang and sociability: In-group language among college students. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Eckert, P. (1989). Jocks and burnouts: Social categories and identity in the high school. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, Columbia University.
Eckert, P. (1998). Age as a sociolinguistic variable. In F. Coulmas (Ed.), The handbook of sociolinguistics (pp. 151–167). Oxford: Blackwell.
Eckert, P. (2004). Adolescent language. In E. Finegan & J. Rickford (Eds.), Language in the U.S.A. (pp. 361-374). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Eckert, P., & McConnell-Ginet, S. (2003). Language and gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fischer, J. (1958). Social influences on the choice of a linguistic variant. Word, 14, 47–56.
Fought, C. (2006). Language and Ethnicity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Holmes, J. (1990). Hedges and boosters in women's and men's speech. Language & Communication, 10(3), 185-205.
Holmes, J. (1995). Women, men and politeness. London and New York, NY: Longman.
Labov, W. (1963). The social motivation of a sound change. Word, 19, 273-309.
Labov, W. (1966/2006). The social stratification of English in New York City. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
Milroy, L. (1987). Language and social networks (2nd ed.). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Smith, P. M. (1985). Language, the sexes and society. New York, NY: Blackwell.
Tagliamonte, S. A. (2012). Variationist sociolinguistics: Change, observation, interpretation. Wiley-Blackwell.
Tannen, D. (1990). You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.