The Urbanization of Rural Dialect Speakers : A Sociolinguistic Study in Brazil (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. The sociolinguistic situation in Brazil; 3. The Caipira dialect; 4. Network analysis: a dynamic model to approach language change; 5. Network patterns and dialect diffuseness; 6. Collecting data in Brazlandia; 7. The models and methods; 8. The quantitative analysis of the linguistic data; 9. Cross-cultural communication problems; 10. Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.