Suggests the outlines of a theory of how sociocultural and grammatical knowledge are integrated in the construction of personal names and how such knowledge can be retrieved from surface linguistic forms. Draws on anthropological and linguistic procedures to analyse the Yoruba personal naming system and the sociolinguistic principles that underly…

Explains the attitude of Indians to kinship term usage, particularly in referring to one's spouse. (AM)

Examines some of the social, cultural, and religious factors involved in name changing in Hindi. (AM)

This bibliography is a guide to studies of the languages belonging to three branches of the Congo-Kordofanian stock found in Liberia. Many works done before the end of the nineteenth century have been omitted, along with works that only briefly mention Liberian languages, and publications in these languages on nonlinguistic topics. (DS)

The relationship between forms of language and social stratification is examined using the English language as an example of an open system of status denotation and the Korean language as an example of a closed system. (SW)

Discusses the importance of uncovering the universal features of proper names and relating them to different naming systems. Suggests that this viewpoint may lead to an appreciation of proper names as a sociolinguistic universal and a cultural variable, beyond the particulars on which most of the literature has focused. (MES)

Caste and language in the Jaffna Hindu Tamil society were correlated based on data collected from sample villages in the Jaffna peninsula, where the political and economic ascendancy of the landlords was very dominant in the recent past. (SW)

Discusses some of the problems inherent in traditional methods of acquiring data for linguistic analysis, and proposes research methods which involve questionnaires and are designed to eliminate these problems, especially where reliable intuitive data cannot be obtained. (AM)

Major structural varieties of personal names as they are used in Kuwait are reviewed. Personal names are an important subclass of noun and constitute a nearly universal language of relationship. (DS)

Examines the extent to which sociocultural features influence the emergence of a standard Nigerian English. (Author/AM)

Language and communication are not composed solely of traditional words. Sounds of a language also affect intercultural understanding and communication. (Author/HP)

The term ethnoreconstruction has been coined to refer to a strategy by which a speaker of one language or dialect attempts to speak a related language or dialect by systematically transforming the elements. The process is discussed with reference to several languages. (CHK)

Examines acculturation patterns in the language of Samoans in San Francisco. (AM)

Spanish loanwords in Arizona Tewa are compared with their counterparts in Rio Grande Tewa and Hopi and the process of linguistic acculturation and culture contact are evaluated. Implications for ethnohistorical and comparative research are discussed. (SW)

Examines some aspects of syntactic and semantic variation in the Arizona Tewa speech community, including the speech community members' perception of variation, with a view to exploring the implications of this variation for the study of language change and the anthropological study of language structure. (AM)