Towards a critical sociolinguistics

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Towards a critical sociolinguistics

edited by Rajendra Singh

(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 125)

J. Benjamins, c1996

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Bibliography: p. [305]-332

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Description

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics. It explores, with courage and sensitivity, some very important areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian 'idiolect' and Chomskyan 'UG' in order to situate the human linguistic enterprise, and offers valuable insights into human linguisticality and sociality. These explorations expose the limits of correlationism, determinism, and positivistic reificationism, and offer new ways of doing sociolinguistics. Intended for both practicing and future sociolinguists, it is an ideal text-book for the times, particularly for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Table of Contents

  • 1. List of contributors
  • 2. Acknowledgements
  • 3. Introduction (by Singh, Rajendra)
  • 4. 1. Where does the sociolonguistic variable stop? (by Lavandera, Beatriz R.)
  • 5. 2. Syntactic variation and dialect divergence (by Harris, John)
  • 6. 3. The autonomy of social variables: The indian evidence revisited (by Singh, Rajendra)
  • 7. 4. The quiet demise of variable rules (by Fasold, Ralph W.)
  • 8. 5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation (by Romaine, Suzanne)
  • 9. 6. Descriptive and explanatory power of rules in sociolinguistics (by Dittmar, Norbert)
  • 10. 7. Report from an underdeveloped country: Toward lingguistic competence in the United States (by Hymes, Dell H.)
  • 11. 8. Language death (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.)
  • 12. 9. Sex roles, interruptions and silences in conversation (by Zimmerman, Dean H.)
  • 13. 10. Communication in a multilingual society: Some missed opportunities (by Singh, Rajendra)
  • 14. 11. The political topography of Spanish and English: The view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood (by Urciuoli, Bonnie)
  • 15. 12. Language planning as discourse (by Williams, Geoffrey)
  • 16. References
  • 17. Authors index
  • 18. Language index
  • 19. Subject index

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  • NCID
    BA27731306
  • ISBN
    • 1556195796
    • 9027236283
  • LCCN
    96003823
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 342 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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