“Good evening, welcome to The Gilpin. May I recommend the Old Fashioned?” (To the finance guys in blazers.) Low prestige: “Hey, hon, what’ll it be? The usual?” (To the off-duty cooks.)
The book taught Maya that silence is also a dialect. Sociolinguistics Book
Maya found the book in a box labeled “Free” on a rainy Brooklyn sidewalk. It was thick, water-stained, and titled An Introduction to Sociolinguistics . “Good evening, welcome to The Gilpin