Introduction to Sociolinguistics

• Foreword | p. vii
• Part One: The Philosophical Problems of Sociolinguistics | p. 1
• Marxist Sociology and Sociolinguistics
• Language and Social Structure
• Language as a Social Factor
• Language and Nation
• Language and Culture
• Language and the Sociology of an Individual
• Part Two: The Theoretical Problems of Sociolinguistics | p. 33
• The Subject-Matter of Sociolinguistics
• The Conceptual Framework of Sociolinguistics
• Communities and Unities
• Sociocommunicative Systems
• Stratificational and Situational Variation of Language
• The Functioning of Sociocommunicative Systems
• Language Situation
• Linguistic Communication, Communicative Function and Functional Types of Idioms
• The Concept of “Function” and Functional Types of Idioms
• Definition of a Language Situation
• Toward a Typology of Language Situations
• Exoglossic Balanced Language Situations
• Exoglossic Unbalanced Language Situations
• Endoglossic Balanced Language Situations
• Endoglossic Unbalanced Language Situations
• Bilingualism and Diglossia
• Language Policy
• Typology of Language Policy
• Language Policy Stages
• Social Aspects of Verbal Behaviour
• Toward a Sociolinguistic Theory of Verbal Behaviour
• Social Determinants of Verbal Behaviour
• Sociolinguistic Models of Verbal Behaviour
• Part Three: Methods of Sociolinguistic Studies | p. 135
• Methods of Collecting Sociolinguistic Data
• Methods of Sociolinguistic Analysis
• Summary | p. 153
• Footnotes | p. 155
• Subject Index | p. 173
• Author Index | p. 177
• Postscript | p. 181

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