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Publication details [#30958]
Singh, R., ed. 1996. Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 125). John Benjamins. 342 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
This collection of twelve essays offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible sociolinguistics. It explores some very important areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian 'idiolect' and Chomskyan 'UG' in order to situate the human linguistic enterprise, and offers valuable insights into human linguisticality and sociality. These explorations expose the limits of correlationism, determinism, and positivistic reificationism, and offer new ways of doing sociolinguistics.