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Weaver, Constance Waltz – 1970
The recent work by sociolinguists is more accurate for consideration of urban dialects than is the analysis provided in the "Linguistic Atlas" materials. The sociolinguists' work shows that the use of nonstandard phonological and grammatical features varies according to one's socioeconomic status, ethnic background, speech context, age,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Ethnology

Holzknecht, Suzanne – World Englishes, 1989
Discusses the birthday notices that appear in the advertising section of the Papua New Guinea "Post Courier." The texts of these notices are analyzed from a sociolinguistic perspective, and their context is considered as a register of the variety of English that has become known as Papua New Guinea English. (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Wolfram, Walter A. – 1969
This book is the fifth in a series of publications concerning the position and role of language in a large metropolitan area. In this sociolinguistic description Detroit is chosen as a case study of a large Northern urban area which has shown a dramatic increase in its Negro population within the last half century. The primary goal of the study…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Dialects