About the Author
Penelope Eckert is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Learning in Menlo Park, CA. She has also taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Jocks and Burnouts (1989), editor of New Ways of Analyzing Sound Change (1991), and co-editor of The Cornell Lectures: Women in the Linguistic Profession (1990).
Features
* Provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population.
* Shows how local processes coincide with the global patterning of variation with class, gender and age.
* Uncovers the nature of social meaning and the dynamics of influence in variation.
