| Preface |
S. V |
| Acknowledgements |
S. VI |
| Introduction |
S. 1 |
| Section I: Concepts, Postulates, Methods |
| Raith, Joachim: |
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The Conceptualization of the Social Substratum of Language Ecology |
S. 6 |
| Enninger, Werner / Wandt, Karl-Heinz: |
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Language Ecology Revisited: From Language Ecology to Sign Ecology |
S. 29 |
| Macaulay, Ronald K. S.: |
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Chattering, Nattering and Blethering: Informal Interviews as Speech Events |
S. 51 |
| Section II: The Embedding of Verbal Signs in the Nonverbal Context |
| von Raffler-Engel, Walburga: |
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Verbal and Nonverbal Student Interaction in the College Classroom as a Function of Group Cohesion |
S. 67 |
| Loveday, Leo: |
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The Ecology of Designatory Markers |
S. 83 |
| Arndt, Horst / Janney, Richard W.: |
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The Duck-Rabbit Phenomenon: Notes on the Disambiguation of Ambiguous Utterances |
S. 94 |
| Section III: The Ecology of Language Variation |
| Mühlhäusler, Peter: |
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Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of Pidgins and Creoles |
S. 118 |
| D' Costa, Jean: |
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Louise Bennett's Dialect Poetry: Problems of Variation along a Creole Continuum in a Literary Text |
S. 135 |
| Mahmoud, Youssef: |
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Middle Arabic: A Variable, Functional Medium |
S. 159 |
| Section IV: Language in Areal and Institutional Settings |
| Khubchandani, Lachman M.: |
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Communication Patterns in the Indian Setting: An Appraisal of Sociolinguistic Realities |
S. 172 |
| Nelde, Hans Peter: |
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Ecological Implications of Language as Seen in Old Belgium |
S. 189 |
| Kaplan, Robert B.: |
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Immigrant Polynesians in New Zealand |
S. 200 |
| Gilbertson, Gerard: |
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International Treaties: Ecological Aspects of a Technical Register |
S. 212 |
| Section V: Language Ecology – A Revived Paradigm? |
| Hartig, Matthias: |
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Sociolinguistics and the Description of Language Change and Language Ecology or: Language Splitting Versus Language Contact |
S. 237 |