Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- 0. Dr. Takesi Sibata and the principal trends in Japanese sociolinguistics -- (I) The study of sociolinguistics -- 1. The language life of the Japanese -- 2. The survey of a speech community and its methodology -- 3. A 24 hour survey of the language life of the Japanese -- 4. Individual differences among investigators of linguistic geography -- (II) Honorifics -- 5. Honorifics and honorifics research -- 6. The honorific prefix "o-" in contemporary Japanese -- 7. Learning to say "haha" -- 8. The language life of Machino - The social psychology of honorifics - -- 9. Honorifics in a community -- (III) Language change -- 10. The rise and fall of dialects -- 11. The age structure of the speech community -- 12. 20 Years of the Itoigawa dialect -- 13. The evolution of Common Language in Hokkaido -- 14. Dialect formation in a settlement -- 15. Place names as evidence of Japanese settlement in Ainu Areas -- (IV) Sociolect and idiolect -- 16. Group language -- 17. Group language and its emergence -- 18. Fad words and language bosses -- 19. Urbanization and language differences in social classes -- 20. Changes in life and changes in language - stabilization of new expressions - -- 21. The microtoponymy of a limited area considered as part of the vocabulary of an idiolect -- (V)Norms of language -- 22. Consciousness of language norms -- 23. Standards of pronunciation -- 24. Discriminatory words and linguistic taboos -- Notes -- References -- Complete Works of Takesi Sibata -- Sources of Original Publications -- Index