Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Chapter I: General Description and Typological Schemes
  • Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies
  • Towards a Descriptive Framework For the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language Within a Country
  • Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions
  • Functional Types of Language in India
  • Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach
  • Chapter II: Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties
  • A Normtheoretical Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language
  • Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia
  • Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch
  • Über den Begriff Dachsprache
  • Quelques remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss
  • Regressed or “Downgraded Varieties” of Language: A First Approximation
  • Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms
  • Chapter III: Official, National and International Languages
  • Pluricentricity: National Variety
  • Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis
  • ‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala
  • Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages
  • Chapter IV: Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights
  • Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology
  • ‘Mother Tongue’: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept
  • Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society
  • Chapter V: Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties
  • 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants
  • The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept
  • On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires
  • On Language Mixtures
  • Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity
  • Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity
  • The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant?
  • Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language”: Dialect, Register, and/or Code?
  • Subject Index
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