Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change

Content: 
LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND CULTURE: Advances in the Study of Cognition, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of Contributors, Pages ix-x
Preface, Pages xi-xii
Foreword: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change, Pages xiii-xvii, JOHN J. GUMPERZ
Introduction: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change, Pages 1-20, BEN G. BLOUNT, MARY SANCHES
Language Evolution and Speech Style, Pages 21-33, PAUL KAY
Speech and Social Prestige in the Belizian Speech Community, Pages 35-50, KEITH T. KERNAN, JOHN SODERGREN, ROBERT FRENCH
Language Acquisition and Language Change: Japanese Numeral Classifiers, Pages 51-62, MARY SANCHES
Speculations on the Growth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature, Pages 63-101, BRENT BERLIN
Color Categorization in West Futunese: Variability and Change, Pages 103-118, JANET WYNNE DIXON DOUGHERTY
Creolization and Syntactic Change in New Guinea Tok Pisin, Pages 119-130, GILLIAN SANKOFF
Recent Relexification Processes in Philippine Creole Spanish, Pages 131-159, CAROL H. MOLONY
Lexical Expansion within a Closed System, Pages 161-171, IAN F. HANCOCK
Finnish in America: A Case Study in Monogenerational Language Change, Pages 173-184, FRANCES KARTTUNEN
Historical and Sociocultural Aspects of the Distribution of Linguistic Variants in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, Pages 185-225, NICHOLAS A. HOPKINS
A Western Apache Writing System: The Symbols of Silas John, Pages 227-252, KEITH H. BASSO, NED ANDERSON
New Insights into the Nature of Language Change Offered by Language Planning, Pages 253-269, JOAN RUBIN
Language Creativity and the Psychotherapy Relationship, Pages 271-287, LILYAN A. BRUDNER
Index, Pages 289-293