Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A proposal for the study of Folk-Linguistics / Henry M. Hoenigswald
  • On the ethnology of linguistic change / John J. Gumperz
  • Linguistics and language planning / Einar Haugen
  • Dialect differences and social differences in an Urban Society / Raven I., Jr. McDavid
  • Hypercorrection by the lower middle class as a factor in linguistic change / William Labov
  • Two types of linguistic relativity [with examples from amerindian ethnography] / Dell Hymes
  • Syntax and social structure : Truk and Ponape / John L. Fischer
  • Self-annulling prestige factors among speakers of a creole language / William J. Samarin
  • Structural implications of Russian pronominal usage / Paul Friedrich
  • Socio-cultural and linguistic factors in the development of writing systems for preliterate people / Andrée F. Sjoberg
  • The social and cultural status of Guaraní in Paraguay / José Pedro Rona
  • The status of Hindi as a lingua franca / Gerald Kelley
  • National sociolinguistic profile formulas / Charles A. Ferguson