A Note on Labov"s The Social Stratification of English in New York City.

Abstract

This paper deals with the so-called 'embedding problem which Labov designated in terms of the search for correlation between elements of the linguistic and non-linguistic systems of social behavior(Labov, W. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Center For Applied Linguistics, 1966) The former refers to phonological variables, and the latter to features of the structure, specifically, the stratification of social classes.