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Poplack, Shana – Language in Society, 1978
Describes an investigation of the nature of English dialect acquisition among bilingual Puerto Ricans. Subjects were in the sixth grade of a school in the Puerto Rican community in North Philadelphia. Results show that subjects can socially classify linguistic variants from two competing systems and use them appropriately. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dialect Studies

Frazer, Timothy C. – Language in Society, 1983
A study of 51 speakers in rural Illinois showed fronting and raising of (aw) to be considerably more advanced among countryside dwellers than among town residents. Discusses some of the social and economic changes contributing to this phonological shift. (EKN)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Language Usage

Speicher, Barbara L.; McMahon, Seane M. – Language in Society, 1992
Sixteen African Americans affiliated with a university reported on their experiential, attitudinal, and descriptive responses to Black English Vernacular (BEV). Three issues emerged: BEV as a label, the possibility that BEV was socially constructed, and the perception that BEV is a limited linguistic system. Interview questions are appended. (44…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Stereotypes, Blacks, Code Switching (Language)

Trudgill, Peter – Language in Society, 1972
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Usage

Barbour, Stephen – Language in Society, 1987
Examination of the West German language and society suggests that the notion that the West German indigenous working class is separated from the middle class by a linguistic barrier is invalid. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, German, Language Patterns

Korovkin, Michael A. – Language in Society, 1987
Reports on the emergence of a new "Americanized" argot (Western cultural influences or objects) in post-Stalinist Russia. The characteristics of the argot's communicative code and the link between the code and the communicative competence of the argot-speaking groups are presented. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Language Usage

Rickford, John R. – Language in Society, 1987
Supports a greater use of repeated recordings and elicited intuitions by sociolinguists in assessing the linguistic competence of individuals or groups. A replication of an earlier implicational analysis of pronominal variation in the Guyanese creole continuum shows that, with repeated sampling and the inclusion of elicited intuitions, the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Creoles, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis

Edwards, J.; Jacobsen, M. – Language in Society, 1987
Differential evaluations of speech usually occur along the standard-nonstandard dimension. Standard accent rates highly in regard to status and competence but low on the dimensions of integrity and attractiveness. In a Canadian context, however, a regional standard (mainland Nova Scotia) compared favorably or equally in all dimensions to other…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, English, Language Attitudes