End of ADS-L Digest - 31 May 1995 to 1 Jun 1995

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Topics of the day:



 1. variants: markers, indexes, stereotypes? (3)

 2. Query about terms (2)



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Date:  Fri, 2 Jun 1995 07:51:01 -0500

From:  "Timothy C. Frazer" <mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>

Subject: Re: variants: markers, indexes, stereotypes?



Somewhere, Labov classes variants in the following ways, tho my memory is

imperfect:

1. Those that are not perceived by the community but are detectable as

variants by objective oberservation.

2. Those that people respond to on something like a subjective reaction

test but can't describe (?)

3. Those that people are overtly aware of, and can, say, imitate.



I seem to recall that there are names for these: markers, indexes,

stereotypes?



I thought this was in Sociolinguistic Patterns, 1972, but I can't find it.

CAn anyone help to correct my imperfect memory and also tell me where to

find it? I need this today! I'll come back online this afternoon.



Tim Frazer