Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgments 5
3. Contents 7
4. 1 Introduction : Sociolinguistics in Search of a Place among the Academic Disciplines and Political Practices 9
5. 2 Notes on Sociolinguistics 45
6. 3 On the Social in Language and the Linguistic in Society 57
7. 4 Some Issues in Sociolinguistics 113
8. 5 Language and World Vision : Problems of African Ethnolinguistics 145
9. 6 Convergent and Divergent Aspects of Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics 169
10. 7 Register in Descriptive Linguistics and Linguistic Sociology 197
11. 8 Language Planning 245
12. Biographical notes 267
13. Backmatter 271