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On the Dimensions of Sociolinguistics

[1] The book's main contents consist of: Preface, Introduction (by Gumperz), Plan of the Book, Part One ('Ethnographic Description and Explanation'), Part Two ('Discovering Structure in Speech'), Part Three ('Genesis, Maintenance, and Change of Linguistic Codes'), Appendix One ('Background Reading'), and Appendix Two ('Outline Guide for the Ethnographic Study of Speech Use', by Sherzer and Darnell). The individual chapters are as follows. Part One: 'Models of the interaction of language and social life' (Hymes), 'Culture patterning of speech behavior in Burundi' (Albert), ' "Struck by speech": the Yakan concept of litigation' (Frake), 'The strategy of Turkish boys' verbal dueling rhymes' (Dundes, Leach, and Ozkok), 'Signifying and marking: two AfroAmerican speech acts' (Mitchell-Kernan), 'Riddles: expressive models of interrogation' (Roberts and Forman). Part Two: 'On sociolinguistic rules: alternation and cooccurrence' (Ervine-Tripp), 'Context and alternation in Koya kinship terminology' (Tyler), 'Social context and semantic feature: the Russian pronominal usage' (Friedrich), 'Remarks on ethnomethodology' (Garfinkel), 'On the analyzability of stories by children' (Sacks), 'Sequencing in conversational openings' (Schegloff), 'A kinesiclinguistic exercise: the cigarette scene' (Birdwhistell), Part Three: 'Social meaning in linguistic structures: code-switching in Norway' (Blom and Gumperz), 'Domains and the relationship between microand macrosociolinguistics' (Fishman), 'Ethnic processes on the Pathan-Baluch boundary' (Barth), 'A sociolinguistic approach to socialization; with some reference to educability' (Bernstein), 'The stylistic significance of consonantal sandhi in Trukese and Ponapean' (Fischer), 'On the mechanism of linguistic change' (Labov). Each chapter is introduced by an editorial essay. There is a comprehensive Bibliography, Name Index, and Subject Index. The items by Dundes et al. Roberts and Forman, Barth, and Sherzer and Darnell do not find a place in this review; please note that no sort of assessment is thereby implied.