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Penelope Eckert, Linguistic variation as social practice. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. xvi, 240. Hb $62.95, pb $28.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2006

William Labov
William Labov
Affiliation:
Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6301, labov@central.cis.upenn.edu
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The first quotation on the back cover of this book begins, “This long-awaited volume demonstrates that Eckert is the sociolinguist.” Some people have expressed the view that this is an unusually strong statement. Since I wrote it myself, I am faced with the clear choice in this review of defending it or apologizing for it.

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 277 - 284
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press