Book reviews: Janicki, K. 1985: The foreigner's language. Oxford: Pergamon. 86pp
In The foreigner’s language, Karol Janicki helps establish the field of bilingual sociolinguistics, or, if that is too grandiose a claim, helps extend the interests of sociolinguistic research to those contexts in which developing competence in a second or foreign language is the focus of interest. This may seem an absurd claim since, of all persuasions, surely sociolinguists have been most sensitive to bilingual and multilingual situations. The fact is, however, that nearly all such studies, whether of such linguistically specific matters as the constituent types allowed in switching or of such societally large matters as the number of speakers of one variety or another, focus on the