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UNINA9910811835903321 |
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Titolo |
Towards a critical sociolinguistics / / edited by Rajendra Singh |
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Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins Pub., c1996 |
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1-282-16382-5 |
9786612163821 |
90-272-9969-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 125 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references: p. [305]-332. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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TOWARDS A CRITICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Where Does the Sociolinguistic Variable Stop?; 2 Syntactic Variation and Dialect Divergence; 3 The Autonomy of Social Variables The Indian Evidence Revisited; 4 The Quiet Demise of Variable Rules; 5 The Status of Sociological Models and Categories in Explaining Language Variation; 6 Descriptive and Explanatory Power of Rules in Sociolinguistics |
7 Report from an Underdeveloped Country: Toward Linguistic Competence in the United States8 Language Death; 9 Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation; 10 Communication in a Multilingual Society: Some Missed Opportunities; 11 The Political Topography of Spanish and English: The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood; 12 Language Planning As Discourse; References; Author index; Language index; Subject index; The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT)series |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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