03704nam 22006853u 450 991045248310332120210114143103.01-282-16382-5978661216382190-272-9969-2(CKB)1000000000520691(EBL)623231(OCoLC)70766194(SSID)ssj0000284915(PQKBManifestationID)11229448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284915(PQKBWorkID)10261893(PQKB)11474232(MiAaPQ)EBC623231(EXLCZ)99100000000052069120130729d1996|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrTowards a Critical Sociolinguistics[electronic resource]Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company19961 online resource (363 p.)Current Issues in Linguistic TheoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-55619-579-6 90-272-3628-3 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 Sociolinguistics7 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)seriesThis 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 humAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.Series IV,Current issues in linguistic theorySociolinguistics -- AnalysisSociolinguistics -- Study and teachingSociolinguisticsSociolinguisticsPhilology & LinguisticsHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCElectronic books.Sociolinguistics -- Analysis.Sociolinguistics -- Study and teaching.Sociolinguistics.SociolinguisticsPhilology & LinguisticsLanguages & Literatures306.4/4Singh Rajendra164720Singh RajendraAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910452483103321Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics2048024UNINA