ABSTRACT
The term “sociolinguistics” began to gain currency about ten years ago. 51 The subsequent decade has seen a great deal of activity. There have been general symposia (e.g. Bright 1966, Lieberson 1966, Istituto Luigi Sturzo 1970, Ardener 1971, Smith and Shuy 1972); symposia on major topics (e.g. Gumperz and Hymes 1964, Macnamara 1967, Fishman, Ferguson and Das Gupta 1968, Hymes 1971e, Whiteley 1971, Rubin and Jernudd 1972, Cazden, John and Hymes 1972); notable major research efforts (e.g. Fishman 1966, Labov 1966, the several surveys of East African countries, Le Page's survey in British Honduras, Labov's U. S. Regional Survey); the launching of working papers (e.g. Berkeley's Language and Behavior Laboratory series, and now the series out of Texas, and the Georgetown series); books of readings, increasingly specific to the field (e.g. Hymes 1964, Fishman 1968, Giglioli 1972, Gumperz and Hymes 1972, Fishman 1972b); textbooks (e.g. Burling 1969, Pride 1970, Fishman 1970, Fishman 1972a); even a series of collected papers of the middle-aged who find themselves senior scholars (Greenberg 1971, Ferguson 1971, Gumperz 1971, Haugen 1972, Fishman 1972b, Lambert 1972, Ervin-Tripp 1973), as well as Bernstein (1972); and specific journals, one more applied in orientation (La Mundo Lingvo-Problemo), one more theoretical (Language in Society).
