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3. The autonomy of social variables
The indian evidence revisited
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Rajendra Singh✝
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors xi
- Acknowledgements xii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Where does the sociolonguistic variable stop? 17
- 2. Syntactic variation and dialect divergence 31
- 3. The autonomy of social variables 59
- 4. The quiet demise of variable rules 79
- 5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation 99
- 6. Descriptive and explanatory power of rules in sociolinguistics 115
- 7. Report from an underdeveloped country 151
- 8. Language death 195
- 9. Sex roles, interruptions and silences in conversation 211
- 10. Communication in a multilingual society 237
- 11. The political topography of Spanish and English: The view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood 255
- 12. Language planning as discourse 281
- References 305
- Authors index 333
- Language index 338
- Subject index 340
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors xi
- Acknowledgements xii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Where does the sociolonguistic variable stop? 17
- 2. Syntactic variation and dialect divergence 31
- 3. The autonomy of social variables 59
- 4. The quiet demise of variable rules 79
- 5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation 99
- 6. Descriptive and explanatory power of rules in sociolinguistics 115
- 7. Report from an underdeveloped country 151
- 8. Language death 195
- 9. Sex roles, interruptions and silences in conversation 211
- 10. Communication in a multilingual society 237
- 11. The political topography of Spanish and English: The view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood 255
- 12. Language planning as discourse 281
- References 305
- Authors index 333
- Language index 338
- Subject index 340
