Contents // Introduction 7 Part One // Approaches to Sociolinguistics 19 // 1 D. Hymes (1964) // Toward Ethnographies of Communication: // The Analysis of Communicative Events 21 // 2 J. A. Fishman (1969) // The Sociology of Language 45 // Part Two // Speech and Situated Action 59 // 3 E. Goilman (1964) // The Neglected Situation 61 // 4 K. H. Basso (1970) // ‘ To Give up on Words’: // Silence in Western Apache Culture 67 // 5 C. O. Frake (1964) // How to Ask for a Drink in Subanun 87 // 6 E. A. Schegloff (1971) // Notes on a Conversational Practice: // Formulating Place 95 // 7 J. Searle (1965) // What is a Speech Act ? 136 // Part Three // Language, Socialization and Subcultures 155 // 8 B. Bernstein (1970) // Social Class, Language and Socialization 157 // 9 W. Labov (1969) // The Logic of Nonstandard English 179 // Part Four // Language and Social Structures 217 // 10 J. Gumperz (1968) // The Speech Community 219 // 11 C. A. Ferguson (1959) // Diglossia 232 // 12 R. Brown and A. Gilman (1960) // The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity 252 // 13 W. Labov (1970) // The Study of Language in its Social Context 283 // Part Five // Language, Social Change and Social Conflict 309 // 14 J. Goody and I. Watt (1963) // The Consequences of Literacy 311 // 15 R. Inglehart and M. Woodward (1967) // Language Conflicts and the Political Community 358 // Further Reading 379 Acknowledgements 383 Author Index 385 Subject Index 393 // 6