Acceptability in Language (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 17) (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl])

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PREFACE 1. Introduction 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles 4. Acceptability in Context 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context