Part I Methodologies HH Field Methods In an early discussion of linguistic methodology, William Labov classied the different subelds of linguistics according to whether their practitioners were primarily to be found working in “the library, the bush, the closet, the laboratory . . . [or] the street” (Labov 1972: 99). The library was the provenance of the historical linguist, the remote and sparsely populated bush the venue of the anthropological linguist, the laboratory the home of the psycholinguist, and the closet the ...

 

William Labov Bibliography Books The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1966. 2006. Second edition: Cambridge/Cambridge U. Press. The Study of Nonstandard English. Washington, DC: National Council of Teachers of English, 1969. The Study of Non-Standard English. Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1970. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Spanish translation Modelos Linguisticos. Madrid: Editions de Catedra. French translation, Sociolinguistique. Paris: Editions de Minuit. Language ...