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reasons for this development may be, the linguistic ones are surely to be found in the unsatisfactory way in which this type of socio-linguistics dealt with the social part in the hyphenated discipline. Not only did correlational sociolinguistics fail to go beyond rather illfounded concepts of social stratification in society, it also failed to go beyond merely quantitative ways of combining the parts to the left and to the right of the hyphen. In retrospective, it seems that the very idea of amending structuralist/ generative linguistics and its notion of system by merely adding (Statistical) probabilities to rules of competence was misconceived. A more radical rethinking of the notion of system is necessary. Hints at this can be found in Gumperz' writings on dialectology and socio-linguistics. Gumperz points out that the notion of 'system' itself cannot be a theoretical "prime" in linguistics. Instead, linguistic systems ('varieties', 'codes', 'languages', 'dialects' or whatever) are the resultoi a speech community's more or less focussed (categorical) use of linguistic structures and processes. If this reconstmctive perspective is taken seriously, it means that linguistic descri

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Author

Auer, Peter (editor);Luzio, Aldo di (editor)

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110110456

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language