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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811835903321

Titolo

Towards a critical sociolinguistics / / edited by Rajendra Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins Pub., c1996

ISBN

1-282-16382-5

9786612163821

90-272-9969-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 125

Altri autori (Persone)

SinghRajendra

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. [305]-332.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 hum