ON LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY: PART II.

The article presents systematic analysis of books on sociolinguistics. Some of the books included are "In the book "Man's Many Voices: Language in its Cultural Context," by Robbins Burling; "Functions of Language in the Classroom," edited by Courtney B. Cazden, Vera P. John, and Dell Hymes; "The Psychosociology of Language," edited by Serge Moscovici. In his book "Man's Many Voices: Language in its Cultural Context," Robbins Burlin has lucidly presented and thoughtfully examined general issues of language in its social setting, lingustic repertoires and linguistic change. According to the author, his treatment of the formal analysis of analysis of meaning particularly instructive and straight-forward. In this book "Functions of Language in the Classroom," the main topics covered are language varieties and repertoires and communicative strategies The emphasis in this book is on how conflicting intrepretive norms prevent learning. There are number of valuable observations made and numerous theoretical questions are implied.