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William Labov
William Labov | |
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| Born | December 4, 1927 Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | December 17, 2024 (aged 97) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Known for | Variationist sociolinguistics |
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| Children | 7, including Alice Goffman |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Uriel Weinreich |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Institutions | Columbia University University of Pennsylvania |
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Labov's curriculum vitae | |
William David Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV;[1][2] (December 4, 1927 – December 17, 2024) was an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics.[3][4] He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics,[5] and "one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries".[6]
Labov was a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and pursued research in sociolinguistics, language change, and dialectology. He retired in 2015 but continued to publish research until his death in 2024.[7]
- ^ Gordon, Matthew J. (2006). "Interview with William Labov". Journal of English Linguistics. 34 (4): 332–51. doi:10.1177/0075424206294308. S2CID 144459634.
- ^ Tom Avril (October 22, 2012). "Penn linguist Labov wins Franklin Institute award". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
AAASwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ E.g., in the opening chapter of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (ed. Chambers et al., Blackwell 2002), J.K. Chambers writes that "variationist sociolinguistics had its effective beginnings only in 1963, the year in which William Labov presented the first sociolinguistic research report"; the dedication page of the Handbook says that Labov's "ideas imbue every page".
- ^ Trask, R.L. (1997). A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Arnold. p. 124. ISBN 0-340-65266-7.
- ^ McLemore, Cynthia; Liberman, Mark (December 17, 2024). "Bill Labov". Language Log. Archived from the original on December 18, 2024. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ Chambers, Jack (January 14, 2017). "William Labov: An Appreciation". Annual Review of Linguistics. 3 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-051216-040225. ISSN 2333-9683. S2CID 151373995. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
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