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Although limited by its assumptions, Gumperz and Wilson's interactionist study of convergence in Kupwar village has provided creolists with a with a powerful means of collecting and interpreting ethnolinguistic data, taking into account as it does criticisms of approaches such as Labov's that privilege social position over social relations. <[LINK]> A norm of close, thorough fieldwork on particular speech communities in situations as natural as possible using open-ended, interactive elicitation techniques followed by exhaustive analysis of the aggregate data has been the most durable contribution Gumperz has made. He has wrought Hymes' and others' interactionist models into a working approach that has made great contributions to creole studies possible. {<[LINK]> name some--bridge to recent?? Rickford, Taboret Keller and Lepage come to mind}