Soviet Contributions to the Sociology of Language (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 16)

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Acknowledgments Table of Contents Translator's Introduction 1. Formation of the Literary Norm of the German National Language 2. On the Literary Language in China and Japan 3. Problems of the Formation of Unified Norms in the Bashkir National Language 4. Is Planning of Language Development Possible? The Norwegian Language Movement at an Impasse 5. Some Topical Questions in Sociolinguistics 6. Main Trends in Sociolinguistics 7. Ways of Reconstructing the Social Dialects of Antiquity: A Lexico-Semantic Investigation 8. On Social Differences in the Use of Linguistic Variants 9. On the Subject Matter of Sociolinguistics Contributions to the Sociology of Language Selected, Translated And Edited By Philip A. Luelsdorff. Includes Bibliographies.