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In his study of Kupwar village, he maintains that historical

linguistic methods would predict that one of three languages

commonly used in public interactions in the village should have

become the preeminent public variety, but that in fact, none

have, in spite of centuries of contact. As a result of

diachronic approaches failing to predict the Kupwar situation,

Gumperz explicitly rejects it in favor of synchronic approaches

concerned with what Labov has labelled the "direct mechanism of

change." <[LINK] -actuatio> Gumperz and Wilson seek to do

this by maintaining a "focus on interacting social groups."{<[LINK]>

G&W 251-253, 272}