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Linguistic variation as social practice : the linguistic construction of identity in Belten High

This study, based on three years of intensive ethnography in and around a Detroit-area high school, examines phonological variation as it is embedded in adolescent social practice. It locates the social meaning of variation in the process of the local construction of identities

Print Book, English, 2000
Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Mass., 2000