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Social Network Theory

• Granovetter (1973)

Sexuality

• Kulick (1998) (page no longer exists)
• Cameron and Kulick’s (2003) Language and Sexuality (page no longer exists)
• Zwicky (1997)
• Piccolo (2008)
• Zimman (2013) (page no longer exists)
• 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) (page no longer exists)
• Rickford (1986)
• Snell (2010)
• Labov (1972)
• Labov (1966) (page no longer exists)
• This article posted on the BBC and written by James Harbeck dedicates some discussion to the concept of linguistic insecurity

Exam Practice 3

• Text B

Age

• Eckert (1998) (page no longer exists)
• Chambers (2008)
• Labov (1963)
• Cheshire (2005)
• Tagliamonte (2008)
• Eckert (2004)
• Trudgill (1986)

Exam Practice 5

• Text A
• Text B

Ethnicity

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