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Peer reviewedFishman, Joshua A. – Language Learning, 1983
Discusses two opposing sociolinguistic theories, the Whorfian hypothesis and diglossia, which in turn help to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the sociolinguistic field, a field characterised by varied and ideological differences. One solution suggested for this kind of sectarian behavior is to build methodological diversity into the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diglossia, Ethnography, Linguistic Theory
