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In:Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Rajendra Singh
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 125] 1996
► pp. v–x

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Published online: 24 May 1996

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Table of contents

List of contributorsxi

Acknowledgementsxii

Introduction1

1. Where does the sociolonguistic variable stop?17

Beatriz R. Lavandera

2. Syntactic variation and dialect divergence31

3. The autonomy of social variables: The indian evidence revisited59

4. The quiet demise of variable rules79

Ralph W. Fasold

5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation99

Suzanne Romaine

6. Descriptive and explanatory power of rules in sociolinguistics115

Norbert Dittmar

7. Report from an underdeveloped country: Toward lingguistic competence in the United States151

8. Language death195

Wolfgang U. Dressler

9. Sex roles, interruptions and silences in conversation211

Dean H. Zimmerman

10. Communication in a multilingual society: Some missed opportunities237

Gita Martohardjono

11. The political topography of Spanish and English: The view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood255

Bonnie Urciuoli

12. Language planning as discourse281

Geoffrey Williams

References305

Authors index333

Language index338

Subject index340