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Publication details [#13793]
Singh, Rajendra and Jayant K. Lele. 1995. The Autonomy of Social Variables: The Indian Evidence Revisited. In Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K. Lele. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics. (Language and Development 2). SAGE Publications. pp. 60–81. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The purpose of this paper is to find orders and relations that exist in the 'plethora' of linguistic code-distribution in India, and to seek an explanation for what current research in sociolinguistics, in particular research guided by the variationist paradigm, would like us to believe are irreducible primitives.