Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Chapter I: General Description and Typological Schemes
5. Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies 3
6. Towards a Descriptive Framework For the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language Within a Country 21
7. Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions 107
8. Functional Types of Language in India 122
9. Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach 153
10. Chapter II: Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties
11. A Normtheoretical Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language 197
12. Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia 216
13. Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch 243
14. Über den Begriff Dachsprache 256
15. Quelques remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss 278
16. Regressed or “Downgraded Varieties” of Language: A First Approximation 291
17. Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms 324
18. Chapter III: Official, National and International Languages
19. Pluricentricity: National Variety 357
20. Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis 372
21. ‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala 386
22. Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages 399
23. Chapter IV: Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights
24. Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology 443
25. ‘Mother Tongue’: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept 450
26. Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society 478
27. Chapter V: Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties
28. 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants 515
29. The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept 541
30. On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires 552
31. On Language Mixtures 570
32. Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity 581
33. Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity 592
34. The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant? 608
35. Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language”: Dialect, Register, and/or Code? 630
36. Subject Index 657
37. 670 670