SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 NOTES TOWARD A COGNITIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM DISCOURSE IN CONTEXT -- INTRODUCTION -- Theoretical Background: Non-/Anti-Cognitive Versus Cognitive Approaches -- CognitiveAnthropology and Semiotic Anthropology in Sociolinguistics -- Data Presentation and Analysis -- Cognitive Linguistics in Sociolinguistics -- DISCUSSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 SEQUENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIOLINGUISTIC METHODOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SHIFT OF VIEWS -- 3. QUANTITATIVE METHODS -- 4. LONG-TERM PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION METHODS -- 4.1. Participant Observation (Ethnography of Communication) and Quantitative Analysis -- 4.2. Participant Observation and Qualitative Analysis -- 4.3. Participant Observation and Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses -- 4.4. Interim Summary -- 5. FORMAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE VARIATION -- 5.1. Floating Constraints (FCs) -- 5.2. Stratified Grammar (SG) -- 5.3. The Gradual Learning Algorithm (GLA) -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 NEW MODEL FOR ANALYZING SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARAITION: INTRODUCING SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS TO STOCHASTIC OPTIMALITY THEORY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. OPTIMALITY THEORY AND THE GRADUAL LEARNING ALGORITHM -- 3. DATA -- 4. MODELING VARIATION BETWEEN [q] AND [ʔ] IN THE GLA -- 4.1. Linguistic Constraints Pertinent to the Variation between [q] and [ʔ] -- 4.1.1. Grammar of RCA -- 4.1.2. Grammar of HCA -- 4.1.3. Acquisition of the HCA Form By an RCA Speaker -- 4.2. Social Constraints Pertinent to the Variation between [q] and [ʔ] -- 4.3. GLA Analysis of the Variation between [q] and [ʔ] -- 4.3.1. GLA Analysis Without Including Social Constraints -- 4.3.2. Importance of Including Social Constraints in the GLA Analysis.

4.3.3. Including Social Constraints in the GLA Analysis -- 5. DISCUSSION OF EXAMPLES -- 6. ADVANTAGES OF AND CAVEATS ABOUT THE NEW MODEL -- 6.1. Advantages of the New Model -- 6.2. Caveats about the New Model -- 7. CONCLUSION AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 A NEW SOCIOLINGUISTIC MODEL OF ADDRESS TERM PROGRESSION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW -- 2.1. Interpersonal Dimensions -- 2.2. Address Patterns Governed by Power and Solidarity -- 2.3. The Progression Model of Brown and Ford (1961) -- 3. A NEW MODEL OF ADDRESS PROGRESSION -- 4. ILLUSTRATION OF THE NEW MODEL WITH A TYPICAL EXAMPLE -- Dialogue 1 -- Dialogue 2.1 -- Dialogue 2.2 -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 SUCCINCT HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF U.S. SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINITION OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- EARLY HISTORY OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- Language Variation and Dialectology -- Pidgins and Creoles -- Bilingualism and Multilingualism -- Code Switching -- Language Attitudes -- Language Planning -- Language Death -- E-Discourse -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING THE THESIS STATEMENT IN THE UKUNIVERSITY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE US THESIS STATEMENT -- THE THESIS STATEMENT IN THE UK -- PERSONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN THE UK -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE COMPOSITION CLASS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 INTEGRATION OF FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLOGY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 BEST SUCCESS THROUGH LANGUAGE LOSS?AN INCIPIENT AUSTRIAN SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY ON OPEN QUESTIONS IN EDUCATIONAND MIGRATION RESEARCH1 -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STATE OF THE ART - WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF THE AUSTRIAN SITUATION -- 2.1. Insufficient Data Basis -- 2.2. Origin-Specific Failure -- 2.3. Interdisciplinary Inconsistencies.

3. PREPARATORY WORKFOR THE INCIPIENT STUDY: AN EXPLORATIVE INVESTIGATION -- 4. INCIPIENT STUDY - THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 5. INCIPIENT STUDY - AIMS OF ANALYSIS -- 5.1. Survey of Main Aims -- 5.2. Aim A. Detailed Look at Familial Language Transmission and Loss -- 5.2.1. Origin-Specific Differences? "Origin" and Type of Migration -- 5.2.2. Origin-Specific Differences? "Origin" and Country of Origin -- 5.2.3. Interdisciplinary Inconsistencies? "Origin" and Methods of Data Collection -- 5.3. Aim B. Examining the Theoretical Framework and Bringing Together the Different Analyses -- 5.3.1. Best Success through Language Loss? The Linguistic Capital Model -- 5.3.2. So What? Theoretical, Methodological and Educational Policy Consequences -- 6. INCIPIENT STUDY - METHODS -- 6.1. Research Locations and Compilation of Sample -- 6.2. Variables and Levels of Investigation, Methods of Data-Collection and Analysis -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.