Frontmatter -- PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS / Bright, William -- A PROPOSAL FOR THE STUDY OF FOLK-LINGUISTICS / Hoenigswald, Henry M. -- ON THE ETHNOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE / Gumperz, John J. -- LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE PLANNING / Haugen, Einar -- DIALECT DIFFERENCES AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN AN URBAN SOCIETY / McDavid, Raven I. -- HYPERCORRECTION by THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS AS A FACTOR IN LINGUISTIC CHANGE / Labov, William -- TWO TYPES OF LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY (WITH EXAMPLES FROM AMERINDIAN ETHNOGRAPHY) / Hymes, Dell -- SYNTAX AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: TRUK AND PONAPE / Fischer, John L. -- SELF-ANNULLING PRESTIGE FACTORS AMONG SPEAKERS OF A CREOLE LANGUAGE / Samarin, William J. -- STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIAN PRONOMINAL USAGE / Friedrich, Paul -- SOCIO-CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING SYSTEMS FOR PRELITERATE PEOPLES / Sjoberg, Andrée F. -- THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STATUS OF GUARANI IN PARAGUAY / Rona, José Pedro -- THE STATUS OF HINDI AS A LINGUA FRANCA / Kelley, Gerald -- NATIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC PROFILE FORMULAS / Ferguson, Charles A.