Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: Linguistic innovation in London

2008/12/19 by Jenny Cheshire, Sue Fox, Paul Kerswill +1 · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Multilingual Education and Policy #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Friendship #Ethnic group #Linguistics #Sociology #Linguistic change #Anthropology #Social science #Philosophy

paper · doi:10.1515/9783484605299.1

openalex publication_date 2008/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Article Ethnicity, friendship network and social practices as the motor of dialect change: Linguistic innovation in London was published on December 19, 2008 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 22, issue 1).

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