TOWARDS A CRITICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Where Does the Sociolinguistic Variable Stop? -- 2 Syntactic Variation and Dialect Divergence -- 3 The Autonomy of Social Variables The Indian Evidence Revisited -- 4 The Quiet Demise of Variable Rules -- 5 The Status of Sociological Models and Categories in Explaining Language Variation -- 6 Descriptive and Explanatory Power of Rules in Sociolinguistics -- 7 Report from an Underdeveloped Country: Toward Linguistic Competence in the United States -- 8 Language Death -- 9 Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation -- 10 Communication in a Multilingual Society: Some Missed Opportunities -- 11 The Political Topography of Spanish and English: The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood -- 12 Language Planning As Discourse -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index -- The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT)series.