Publications
Publication details [#53652]
Marfany, Joan-Lluís. 2010. Sociolinguistics and some of its concepts: a historian's view. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (206) : 1–20. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study criticizes the idealistic and ahistorical employment of terms as “language” and “dialect” and the lack of appropriate definitions of and distinctions between “bilingualism” and “diglossia”, as well as the unfortunate miscomprehension of the concept of “code switching".