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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

Christopher McAll
Christopher McAll
Affiliation:
Departement de sociologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal Québec H3C 3J7, [email protected]
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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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Book Review
Information
Language in Society , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 591 - 594
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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