Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- 1. Formation of the Literary Norm of the German National Language -- 2. On the Literary Language in China and Japan -- 3. Problems of the Formation of Unified Norms in the Bashkir National Language -- 4. Is Planning of Language Development Possible? The Norwegian Language Movement at an Impasse -- 5. Some Topical Questions in Sociolinguistics -- 6. Main Trends in Sociolinguistics -- 7. Ways of Reconstructing the Social Dialects of Antiquity: A Lexico-Semantic Investigation -- 8. On Social Differences in the Use of Linguistic Variants -- 9. On the Subject Matter of Sociolinguistics -- Contributions to the Sociology of Language