Language Variation as Social Practice

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 adolesc... » 

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. «