Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introductory note
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition: forty years later
- I Problems and methods of analysis
- II Social differentiation
- III Social evaluation
- IV Synthesis
- Glossary of linguistic symbols and terminology
- Appendix A Questionnaire for the ALS Survey
- Appendix B Anonymous observations of casual speech
- Appendix C Analysis of losses through moving of the MFY sample population
- Appendix D Analysis of the non-respondents: the television interview
- Appendix E The out-of-town speakers
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix D - Analysis of the non-respondents: the television interview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introductory note
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition: forty years later
- I Problems and methods of analysis
- II Social differentiation
- III Social evaluation
- IV Synthesis
- Glossary of linguistic symbols and terminology
- Appendix A Questionnaire for the ALS Survey
- Appendix B Anonymous observations of casual speech
- Appendix C Analysis of losses through moving of the MFY sample population
- Appendix D Analysis of the non-respondents: the television interview
- Appendix E The out-of-town speakers
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 6, the derivation of the sample for the Lower East Side survey was discussed, and the characteristics of the ALS target sample given. The regular ALS linguistic interview was completed for 63 percent of that sample. The non-respondents will be analyzed in this appendix – first for their social characteristics, and then, by means of the television interview, for their linguistic behavior. The television interview was described generally in Chapter 6: the questionnaire itself is given at the end of this appendix.
Characteristics of the non-respondents
Table 6.4 showed an ALS target population of 195 individuals. A total of 122 were interviewed through the regular ALS survey procedure, and 33 of the remaining 73 by the television interview. Six of the 195 individuals in the target sample are eliminated when one-third of the AA working class group is set aside to match the other working class groups. The total ALS response for this comparable sample is then 119 out of 189, or 63 percent. Of the 70 non-respondents, 33 were studied through the television interview, and 37 were not sampled. The non-respondents were basically of two types: refusals, and those who could not be reached.
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- The Social Stratification of English in New York City , pp. 437 - 449Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006