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Rajendra Singh, Lectures against sociolinguistics. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xix, 180.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 1999
Abstract
Singh criticizes sociolinguistics, whether in its Labovian or its Gumperzian guise, for failing to take into account what he describes as linguisticality and sociality. Thus variationism fails to take into account the underlying phonological laws that not only are a part of all languages, but are also specific to certain languages; and interactionism fails to take power and inequality into account.
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