READER IN CZECH SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: On Czech Linguistics and Sociolinguistics -- Notes -- References -- On the Socially Conditioned Nature of Language -- Notes -- The Relationship between the Communicative Sphere and Language Variety in the Slavonic Languages -- Notes -- References -- Basic Types of Norm in Language Communication -- References -- On the Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Notion of Functional Style -- References -- The Changing Dichotomy between Informal and Formal Utterance -- Notes -- On the Shaping of Everyday Speech in Moravian Towns -- Notes -- Some Sociolinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Geography -- Notes -- References -- Literary Languages in Contact -- Notes -- References -- The Influence of Social Roles of Participants on Group and Interpersonal Verbal Communication -- 1. Communicative situation -- 2. Social roles -- 3. Influence of participants' social roles on verbal communication -- 3.1. Language indicators of the mutual influencing of participants in the verbal communication of a small group (at operative meetings) -- 3.2. Language indicators of the mutual influencing of participants in an interpersonal verbal communication -- Notes -- References -- On the Communicative Approach to the Study of Slang -- 1. The study of slang in the ČSSR: its past and present -- 2. On the conception of slang in the ČSSR -- 3. Typology of approaches to the investigation of slang -- 4. An individual as the knower and user of several types of slang -- 5. Slang in ontogenesis.Obligatory and facultative types of slang and their different influence on the core of national language -- 6. Some prospects -- Notes -- References -- Values and Attitudes in Language Standardization -- Notes -- References -- The Language Treatment as an Aspect of Language Culture.

Notes -- References -- Language Planning Implications in a Socialist Society -- References -- Some Remarks on Personal Pronouns in the Addressing Function -- Notes -- References -- On Historical Sociolinguistics -- Notes -- Language Texts and Language Informants -- Notes -- References -- Linguistics - Sociology -- References -- List of Authors.