text_combined: paulston tucker early days sociolinguistics early days sociolinguistics memories reflections 1997 christina bratt paulston g richard tucker eds dallas tx summer institute linguistics 162 pages 37 paper reviewed joyce milambiling point 1960 along social political upheaval landmark court decisions education host social events discipline sociolinguistics emerged scholars various disciplines places course sociolinguistic research time decade group people started systematically calling sociolinguistics happen responsible coming together talented group people often extent still nt consider cohesive group answers questions found new volume edited christina bratt paulston g richard tucker book subtitled memories reflections describes well tone 30 contributions book contributions range editors introduction epilogue personal accounts practitioners supporters early sociolinguistic research short essays memory several important figures field contributions reflections wide range scholars instrumental launching sociolinguistics lineup early participants enterprise sociolinguistics impressive including joshua fishman susan ervin tripp wallace lambert dell hymes charles ferguson others creates high expectations part reader outset expectations part met reader coming away real sense zeitgeist allowed sociolinguistics blossom book based premise want find certain historical period like talk people editors provided contributors list 18 questions listed introduction early days sociolinguistics tedos main group contributors book calls pioneers sociolinguistics come wide variety disciplines countries although majority north america method editors chose elicit memories many advantages range questions allows contributors choose aspects beginning sociolinguistics wish able talk questions fact useful important task hand one key questions please characterize us intellectual social economic climate time pp 6 question received great deal attention contributors taken together responses convince reader 1960 exciting time hearing research language social context another question asked writers identify critical milestone conference publication event marks beginning sociolinguistics page 6 many contributors identified milestones conference university california los angeles ucla sociolinguistics 1964 later resulted william bright edited volume proceedings many also mentioned linguistic society america lsa summer seminar year bloomington indiana another frequently mentioned milestone creation committee sociolinguistics social science research council ssrc also 1964 however overview articles written book also couple reprinted articles reveals authors focused handful questions editors said might consider two mentioned provide fascinating information people events time questions example one asked received first doctorate sociolinguistics seem less germane purpose book answered least definitively many contributing authors articles tedos vary greatly terms length personal involvement author subject susan ervin tripp article development sociolinguistics deals mostly history organizations crucial early development sociolinguistics particular sociolinguistics committee social science research council ssrc basil bernstein included remembrances beginnings discipline part difference deficit debate pointedly states little theoretical significance indeed obscured revealed page 47 appendix article bernstein adds pointby point critique william labov paper logic non standard english dell hymes credited noam chomsky development field sociolinguistics statement aspects theory syntax defined goal linguistic theory way eliminate people use page 122 contributions give reader important insights contributors thinking 30 years ago well see involvement today contributors positive happening sociolinguistics time adds balance touch reality book interesting feature tedos inclusion institutional actors development sociolinguistics without adequate funding research interaction among scholars practitioners happens haphazardly institutions like ford foundation u department education center applied linguistics summer institute linguistics key players early era sociolinguistics dick thompson department education added voice group saying launching sputnik beginning modern sociolinguistics funds education language study skyrocketed pun intended thus deeply impacted educational attitudes projects another important feature volume effort taken editors include diverse group possible especially scholars represent third world countries bonifacio sibayan talks serious problem funding countries like philippines collaboration foreign institutions researchers allowed third world countries better investigate language issues problems within borders e annamalai discusses development sociolinguistics india linguistic research done india indigenous outside researchers contributed greater understanding sociolinguistic phenomena editors also fine job introducing book providing final comment contents taken together chapters function conceptual bookends bratt paulston introduction provides explanations rationale choice contributors well contributors asked address tucker epilogue sums major themes emerged five themes interdisciplinary nature field events launched social issues sparked emergence socio linguistics discipline study importance number key individuals difference north american european perspective researchers developing countries important role funding organizations supporting sociolinguistic research dialogue book generally well edited errors bibliography valuable combines references contributed articles one collective group books articles one disadvantage references come scholars working different fields thus using different bibliographic styles result first names abbreviated others written using full names minor discipline abbreviates first names problem want cite look reference full first name also couple typographical errors example page 302 article commemorating work heinz kloss term abstand misspelled although spelled correctly elsewhere article page 217 biographical note sibayan read komisyon sa wikang filipino final note publishers tedos say audience book include people fields represented contributors sociolinguists social psychologists linguistic anthropologists applied linguists general back cover also speculate historians science interested reading evolution discipline sociolinguistics academic discipline grown decades importance visibility problem researchers practitioners involved sociolinguistic issues may interested field came unless history somehow explicitly folded disciplines would like see tedos syllabus history linguistics course example optimistic would generally accepted believe however important book anyone interested people institutions responsible existence growth sociolinguistics references bright william ed 1966 sociolinguistics proceedings ucla sociolinguistics conference 1964 janua linguarum series major 20 hague mouton chomsky noam 1965 aspects theory syntax cambridge mit press labov william 1970 logic nonstandard english proceedings georgetown university round table language linguistics 1969 washington c georgetown university press