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Today, the notion of "diglossia" occupies a prominent place in sociolinguistic research. Since the 1960s, when the dominant sense of "diglossia" was the complementary socio-functional distribution of two varieties of the same language, the term has been applied - often controversially - to a growing number of diverse sociolinguistic situations. As a consequence of this extension of the scope of the concept, in combination with an increasing interest in the relationship between the role of language and the social structure, the number of publications in this field has risen exponentially over the last decades. However, despite the growing importance of the notion, up till now there was no adequate bibliography devoted to diglossia, while coverage in other bibliographies does not do justice to the number of works actually published in this area. This comprehensive bibliography of the subject includes almost 3000 entries; although the time span covered is 1960-1990, the book includes several dozens of entries from before 1960 and also a substantial number of very recent publications from the period 1990-1992. The selection of items has not been restricted to a specific definition of

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Author

Mauro A. Fernández

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556192531

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Reference, Linguistics, Computer Science