Language Variety and Its Implication for American Cultural Pluralism

FAIN: RO-12707-77

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Raven McDavid (Project Director: February 1977 to present)

To support a conference examining the kinds of variation that exist in standard American English, the relationship between standard and non-standard varieties in various social situations (especially in multi-racial communities), and the history and structure of multilingual communities. Participants in conference will prepare papers and proceedings of conference will be published.