The "common core" of different sociolinguistic schools includes a number of general problems such as the social differentiation of language, the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistic situations, language engineering, national and standard languages and their social functions, etc. Still urgent to the sociolinguists of all countries and all trends is the problem of developing their own methodology and the application of research methods developed by other disciplines to sociolinguistics. The above-mentioned problems constitute the major thrust of this book. It is not merely a summary of studies by a certain sociolinguistic school or even several schools; the main goal of the author is to elucidate a number of major philosophical and theoretical questions, fundamental problems of sociolinguistics and methods of sociolinguistic analysis.
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1. Preface to the English edition, pV
2. Contents, pVII
3. Introduction, p1
4. Chapter I: Philosophical Foundations of Contemporary Sociolinguistics, p5
5. 1. Marxist Sociology and Sociolinguistic Theory, p5
6. 2. Behaviouristic Model of Speech Behaviour, p8
7. 3. Social Anthropology and Sociolinguistics, p13
8. 4. The Theory of Isomorphism of Linguistics and Sociocultural Systems, p23
9. 5. Symbolic-Interactionist Sociology and its Influence on Sociolinguistics, p33
10. 6. Ethnomethodology and its Relation to Sociolinguistics, p38
11. 7. Sociolinguistics and Generative Grammar, p44
12. Chapter II: Theoretical Problems of Sociolinguistics, p51
13. 1. The Subject-Matter of Sociolinguistics, p51
14. 2. On the Conceptual Framework of Sociolinguistics, p63
15. 3. Sociolinguistics and Semiotics, p78
16. 4. Sociolinguistics and Stylistics, p91
17. Chapter III: Some Problems of Sociolinguistics, p106
18. 1. Bilingualism and Diglossia, p106
19. 2. Typology of Language Situations, p123
20. 3. Language Policy and Language Engineering, p137
21. Chapter IV: Methods of Sociolinguistics Studies, p148
22. 1. Methods of Obtaining Sociolinguistic Data, p148