INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTIS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PART ONE. THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIS -- Marxist Sociology and Sociolinguistics -- Language and Social Structure -- Language as a Social Factor -- Social functions of language. -- Language and Nation -- Language and Culture -- Language and the Sociology of an Individual -- PART TWO. THE THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS -- The Subject-Matter of Sociolinguistics -- The Conceptual Framework of Sociolinguistics -- Communities and Unities -- Sociocommunicative Systems -- Stratificational and Situational Variation of Language -- The Functioning of Sociocommunicative Systems -- Language Situation -- Linguistic Communication, Communicative Function and Functional Types of Idioms -- Linguistic Communication and Communicative Domains -- The concept of "Function" and Functional Types of Idioms -- Definitions of a Language Situation -- Toward a Typology of Language Situations -- Exoglossic Balanced Language Situations -- Exoglossic Unbalanced Language Situations -- Endoglossic Balanced Language Situations -- Endoglossic Unbalanced Language Situations -- Bilingualism and Diglossia -- Language Policy -- Typology of Language Policy -- Language Policy Stages -- Social Aspects of Verbal Behaviour -- Toward a Sociolinguistic Theory of Verbal Behaviour -- Social Determinants of Verbal Behaviour -- Sociolinguistic Models of Verbal Behaviour -- PART THREE. METHODS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDIES -- Methods of Collecting Sociolinguistic Data -- Methods of Sociolinguistic Analysis -- SUMMARY -- FOOTNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX -- POSTSCRIPT.