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  2. William Labov - Wikipedia

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    William David Labov (/ l ə ˈ b oʊ v / lə-BOHV; [1] [2] (December 4, 1927 – December 17, 2024) was an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics.

  3. Philadelphia study - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia study was a study designed to test the Curvilinear principle as referred to by William Labov, through careful gathering and analysis of research on language variants in five Philadelphia neighborhoods.

  4. Style (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    William Labov first introduced the concept of style in the context of sociolinguistics in the 1960s, though he did not explicitly define the term. [1] Labov primarily studied individual linguistic variables, and how they were associated with various social groups (e.g. social classes). He summed up his ideas about style in five principles: [2]

  5. Covert prestige - Wikipedia

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    Covert prestige refers to the relatively high value placed towards a non-standard form of a variety in a speech community. This concept was pioneered by the linguist William Labov, in his study of New York City English speakers that while high linguistic prestige is usually more associated with standard forms of language, this pattern also implies that a similar one should exist for working ...

  6. Observer's paradox - Wikipedia

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    In the field of sociolinguistics, the term Observer’s Paradox was coined by William Labov, who stated with regard to the term: . The aim of linguistic research in the community must be to find out how people talk when they are not being systematically observed; yet we can only obtain this data by systematic observation.

  7. Curvilinear principle - Wikipedia

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    First proposed by William Labov, [2] the curvilinear principle departs from traditional nineteenth century notions that language change generally originates in the highest or lowest classes of society. Instead, it states that variant forms leading to language change are typically introduced and motivated by the intermediate groups—the upper ...

  8. List of Jewish American linguists - Wikipedia

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    William Labov, sociolinguist, awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy (2015) [8] María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist [9] Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist [10] Isaac Nordheimer, Hebrew and Syriac scholar and philologist [11] Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, founder of enthnolinguistics [12]

  9. Prestige (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The idea of covert prestige was first introduced by William Labov, who noticed that even speakers who used non-standard dialects often believed that their own dialect was "bad" or "inferior". Labov realized that there must be some underlying reason for their use of the dialect, which he identified as a signal of group identity. [8]