Table of contents
List of contributorsxi
Acknowledgementsxii
1. Where does the sociolonguistic variable stop?17
2. Syntactic variation and dialect divergence31
3. The autonomy of social variables: The indian evidence revisited59
4. The quiet demise of variable rules79
5. The status of sociological models and categories in explaining language variation99
6. Descriptive and explanatory power of rules in sociolinguistics115
7. Report from an underdeveloped country: Toward lingguistic competence in the United States151
9. Sex roles, interruptions and silences in conversation211
10. Communication in a multilingual society: Some missed opportunities237
11. The political topography of Spanish and English: The view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood255
12. Language planning as discourse281
References305
Authors index333
Language index338
Subject index340
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