Download or read book American Sociolinguistics written by Stephen O. Murray and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is part of a test of a formalization of the theory proposed by Griffith and Mullins (1972) to explain the formation of scientific groups and to account for differences between what Kuhn termed "scientific revolutions" and changes within "normal science".