Readings in the Sociology of Language

Introduction -- THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE -- Section I: PERSPECTIVE ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE -- COMMUNICATION IN ANIMALS AND IN MEN; THREE REVIEWS -- LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLOGY -- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT -- THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPEAKING -- THE USERS AND USES OF LANGUAGE -- Section II: LANGUAGE IN SMALL-GROUP INTERACTION -- INTERDEPENDENCE OF THERAPIST AND PATIENT VERBAL BEHAVIOR -- SHARING, TALKING AND GIVING: RELIEF OF SOCIAL TENSIONS AMONG !KUNG BUSHMEN -- THE ISOLATION OF STYLES -- AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION OF LANGUAGE, TOPIC AND LISTENER -- SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE STRUCTURE -- Section III: LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL STRATA AND SECTORS -- SOME SOCIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF PERCEPTION. AN INQUIRY INTO SUB-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES -- THE REFLECTION OF SOCIAL PROCESSES IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES -- THE PRONOUNS OF POWER AND SOLIDARITY -- A NOTE ON ATTITUDES AND THE USE OF LANGUAGE --
Contents: LINGUISTIC ETIQUETTE -- LITERACY AS A FACTOR IN LANGUAGE CHANGE -- IS A STRUCTURAL DIALECTOLOGY POSSIBLE? -- Section IV: LANGUAGE REFLECTIONS OF SOCIO-CULTURAL ORGANIZATION -- LINGUISTIC INNOVATION AND CULTURE ON THE COPPERBELT, NORTHERN RHODESIA -- THE DECLINE OF GERMAN DIALECTS -- THE URBANIZATION OF THE GUARANI LANGUAGE: A PROBLEM IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE -- MYTHS ABOUT ARABIC -- YIDISHKAYT AND YIDDISH: ON THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON LANGUAGE IN ASHKENAZIC JEWRY -- LEXICOGRAPHICAL TREATMENT OF FOLK TAXONOMIES -- THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS -- NEO-HUMBOLDTIAN ETHNO-LINGUISTICS -- TYPES OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES -- Section V: MULTILINGUALISM -- A STUDY OF THE ROLES OF ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATION IN SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING -- EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE CHOICE -- BILINGUAL USAGE IN PARAGUAY -- A SOCIOLINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY FOR DESCRIBING NATIONAL MULTILINGUALISM --
Contents: AN EXTENSION OF GREENBERG’S LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY MEASURES -- THE DESCRIPTION OF BILINGUALISM -- Section VI: LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE SHIFT -- THE BEGINNING OF NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION IN EUROPE -- THE TREND OF EUROPEAN NATIONALISM – THE LANGUAGE ASPECT -- NEW LANGUAGES FOR OLD IN THE WEST INDIES -- THE LANGUAGE TRANSITION IN SOME LUTHERAN DENOMINATIONS -- DAS NATIONALITÄTENRECHT DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON AMERIKA -- LINGUA FRANCAS OF THE WORLD -- Section VII: THE SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF LANGUAGE PLANNING -- LANGUAGE PLANNING IN MODERN NORWAY -- THE USE OF VERNACULAR LANGUAGES IN EDUCATION: THE REPORT OF THE UNESCO MEETING OF SPECIALISTS, 1951 -- WORLD STATE AND WORLD LANGUAGE -- THE MAKING OF ALPHABETS -- LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATION -- SOME GENERAL REGULARITIES IN THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL LANGUAGES -- Name Index -- Subject Index