___Implications of Gumperz's work________________________________

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SUPERSTRATE/SUBSTRATE <[LINK]>

--Power relations in Kupwar Village are vastly different than in Atlantic Creoles, yet the synchronic results appear similar

GROUNDED THEORY <[LINK]>

--Gumperz contends that linguistic theory alone is not enough to provide adequate cultural descriptions. Societal factors such as ethnicity and the public/private dichotomy must play an integral, rather than supplementary, role in any theoretical explanation.

MODELS OF CONVERGENCE AND CHANGE <[LINK]>

--There are more types of language convergence than creolization. Some of the phenomena that Gumperz is most concerned with would now be analyzed as koineization.

A FRAME FOR FIELDWORK <[LINK]>

-- Although in some ways limiting, Gumperz' applications of interactional sociolinguistic theory have provided the most useful applied frame for exacting fieldwork to a generation of creolists.