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Social Network Theory

• Granovetter (1973)

Sexuality

• Kulick (1998) - Google Book Preview
• Cameron and Kulick’s (2003) Language and Sexuality
• Zwicky (1997)
• Piccolo (2008)
• Zimman (2013)
• Bucholtz and Hall (2004)
• Kitzinger (2005)
• Eckert (1996)

Exam Practice 1

• Bourdieu (1986)
• Text B

Social Class

• Text A
• The economics of linguistic exchanges
• Labov (1966) - The Social Stratification of English in New York City
• Rickford (1986)
• Snell (2010)
• Labov (1972)
• Labov (1966) = The Effect of Social Mobility on Linguistic Behavior
• Why all English speakers worry about slipping up by James Harbeck

Exam Practice 3

• Text B

Age

• Eckert (1998)
• Chambers (2008) - Goolgle Book Preview
• Labov (1963)
• Cheshire (2005)
• Tagliamonte (2008)
• Eckert (2004)
• Trudgill (1986)

Exam Practice 5

• Text A
• Text B

Ethnicity

• Harris and Rampton (2003)
• Article on the evolving use of the N-word, containing several points of view on the acceptability of its usage (page no longer exists)
• Joseph (2004)
• Barth (1998)
• Khan (2006)
• Labov (1972)