William Labov quotes
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“We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.”
-- William LabovSource : Interview with Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.
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“An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.”
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“I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
-- William LabovSource : William Labov (1972). “Sociolinguistic Patterns”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press
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“It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.”
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“But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.”
-- William LabovSource : "Interview with William Labov: Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 11, 2005.
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“However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.”
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“Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.”
-- William LabovSource : "Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.
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“I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.”
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“This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.”
-- William Labov
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Source : "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions With Box Ceo Aaron Levie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.
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Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.
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“In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.”
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“To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.”
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