A description of the linguistic characteristics of the careful speech of recent high school graduates in entry-level positions of job categories of large employment in selected counties of Southwest Virginia
Following the methodology of dialectology, this study was designed to investigate certain linguistic features of careful speech in a limited number of relatively homogeneous counties, each represented by an informant belonging to a certain age and social class, i.e., a 1975 high school graduate ente...
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Language: | en |
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37527 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03312010-020017/ |