Social Structure and Phonological Variation on a Midwestern College Campus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8728533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas E Murray (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-163 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/455452 |
| OpenAlex | W2331072692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
FOUR DECADES OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH have illustrated how phonological variation and social structure can be intimately related. In general, such relationships are either correlative or functional-that is, the variation appears either because of one or more demographic characteristics of the speaker (such as age, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and the like) or because it serves some situation-based communicative purpose. This essay discusses data that fall squarely into the second of these categories; more specifically, it presents evidence that students at a large midwestern college use phonological variation as a means of associating or disassociating themselves with particular kinds of social groups. The essay also discusses why and how some of those students' choices of phonological variants are complicated by the desire to succeed and how those choices are ultimately being resolved
Correlative · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Political science · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Anthropology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Demography · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2010 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |