Toward a theory of social dialect variation

By A. Kroch. 1978

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Re-contextualizing Fairness in NLP: The Case of India (2022, background): “Presence of dialectal features is often associated with demographic subgroups (like socio-economic class (Bernstein, 1960; Kroch, 1978)), and hence”
The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change (1990, background): “Kroch (1978) pointed out that no change from below had been associated with an upper-class or upper middle-class group, and argued that such changes are always initiated with working-class groups, who favor more natural linguistic processes.”