Positions
On Socialization
PREFACE
This book, Positions on Socialization, is intended
for the students of linguistics, who would like to know something more abut socialization
than generally offered in their courses on sociolingusitics, psycholinguistics,
and anthropological linguistics. I do hope that a reading of the
contents of this book will help the students of linguistics’ and adjacent sciences
in our Universities to further widen their horizon of knowledge of society, socialization,
and language accusation and use. This volume contains chapters on the definition
and scope of socialization, sociological approaches to socialization, social psychological
approaches to socialization, and anthropological approaches to socialization.
The second volume will focus on socialization form the point of view of
linguists. The second volume will also discuss the socialization
process vis-à-vis language acquisition and language use, and aspects of
deviant socialization in relation to manifestations of language deviance.
I started writing this book several years ago.
I am glad that I could finally manage to complete it. I am grateful to Mr. Mir Nissar Hussain of
the CIIL Library, and to Mr. Govindarajan, Librarian, All India Institute of Speech
and Hearing, Mysore for their help in obtaining the necessary references.
I am thankful to the authorities of the CIIL, in particular to Dr. D. P.
Pattanayak, Director, CIIL, who accepted the manuscript for publication through
the CIIL. Thanks are
due to sri H. L. N. Bharati, Assistant Editor, CIIL, Sri S. B. Biswas, Press Manger,
CIIL Press, and Sri C. G. Manjunath and Sri Sundar Raj, my colleagues in the CIIL
Press, for their generous help in seeing the manuscript through the Press.
Thanks are due to my wife Swarna, who helped me with her suggestions for
the stylistic improvement of the book.