Foundations in Sociolinguistics

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1977 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Part 1 Toward Ethnographies of Communication; Chapter 1 Toward Ethnographies of Communication; Chapter 2 Studying the Interaction of Language and Social Life; The Status of Linguistics as a Science; Chapter 3 Why Linguistics Needs the Sociologist; Chapter 4 Social Anthropology, Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Speaking; Chapter 5 Bilingual Education: Linguistic vs. Sociolinguistic Bases; Chapter 6 The Contribution of Folklore to Sociolinguistic Research; Chapter 7 The Contribution of Poetics to Sociolinguistic Research; Part 3 Linguistics as Sociolinguistics; Chapter 8 Linguistic Theory and Functions in Speech; Chapter 9 Syntactic Arguments and Social Roles: Quantifiers, Keys, and Reciprocal vs. Reflexive Relationships; Chapter 10 The Scope of Sociolinguistics;