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Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Translation from the original Russian edition. The first Soviet text-book on sociolinguistics, the book introduces the reader to some of its basic problems, such as language and social structure, language as a social factor, language and nation, language and culture, language and the sociology of an individual, sociolinguistics and Marxist sociology. It focuses on such theoretical issues as the subject-matter of sociolinguistics, the functioning of sociocommunicative systems, language policy and social aspects of verbal behavior.
[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 14] 1986. xii, 181 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 31 October 2011
Published online on 31 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Table of contents | pp. v–vi
- Foreword | pp. vii–xii
- Part One: The Philosophical Problems of Sociolinguistics | pp. 1–32
- 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 | pp. 33–134
- 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 | pp. 135–152
- Methods of Collecting Sociolinguistic Data
- Methods of Sociolinguistic Analysis
- Summary | pp. 153–154
- Footnotes | pp. 155–156
- | pp. 157–172
- Subject Index | pp. 173–176
- Author Index | pp. 177–180
- Postscript | p. 181