Author: Bortoni-Ricardo, Stella Maris
Title: The Urbanization of Rural Dialect Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study of Brazil
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1985). orig.boards. 23x15cm, x,265 pp, Some inked & pencilled marginal notes on several pages. A light stain to cover.. Textual tables.. Rubbed. Inked underlining to several sentences on 3 pages. Good. ¶ Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Supplementary Volumes. Contents: The Sociolinguistic Situation in Brazil; The Caipira Dialect; Network Analysis: A Dynamic Model to Approach Language Change; Network Patterns & Dialect Differences; Collecting Data in Brazlandia; The Models & the Methods; The Quantitative Analysis of the Linguistic Data; Cross-Cultural Communication Problems; Conclusions; Appendix: Network Indices & Linguistic Variables Scores.

Keywords: Brazilian Sociolinguistics, Caipira Dialect, Romance Linguistics, Portuguese Social, Dialects Languages, Dialectology, Brazil Language, Latin America, Sociology