Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. On the socially conditioned nature of language 19
5. The relationship between the communicative sphere and language variety in the Slavonic languages 29
6. Basic types of norm in language 57
7. On the sociolinguistic aspects of the notion of functional style 83
8. The changing dichotomy between informal and formal utterance 94
9. Sociolinguistic aspects of research into urban speech 106
10. On the shaping of everyday speech 123
11. Some sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic geography 138
12. Literary languages in contact 156
13. The influence of social roles of participants on group and interpersonal verbal communication 176
14. On the communicative approach to the study of slang 195
15. Values and attitudes in language standardization 206
16. The language treatment as an aspect of language culture 246
17. Language planning implication in a socialist society 257
18. Some remarks on personal pronouns in the addressing function 274
19. On historical sociolinguistics 287
20. Language texts language informants 305
21. Linguistics — Sociology 321
22. List of authors 343