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Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- 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
- II. Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties
- A Normtheoretic 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
- Quelque 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (An Italo-Romance View)
- 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?
- Index of Subjects