Language as social resource / essays by Allen D. Grimshaw ; selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1981. - xiv, 373 pages ; 25 cm. - Language science and national development .

1. Directions for Research in Sociolinguistics: Suggestions of a Nonlinguist Sociologist (1966) -- 2. Sociolinguistics and the Sociologist -- 3. Language as Obstacle and as Data in Sociological Research -- 4. Some Problematic Aspects of Communication in Cross-Racial Research in the United States (1970) -- 5. Rules in Linguistic, Social, and Sociolinguistic Systems and Possibilities for a Unified Theory (1972) -- 6. Postchildhood Modifications of Linguistic and Social Competence (1976) -- 7. Greetings in the Desert (1976) -- 8. Social Problems and Social Policies: An Illustration from Sociolinguistics (1979) -- 9. Social Interactional and Sociolinguistic Rules (1980) -- 10. Selection and Labeling of Instrumentalities of Verbal Manipulation (1980) -- 11. Talk and Social Control (1981) -- 12. Instrumentality Selection in Naturally Occurring Conversation: A Research Agenda (1981_

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