Abstract Functional linguists, sociolinguists, and anthropological linguists have long argued that language by nature is communicative, social, and interactional. Many thus advocate a socially constituted linguistics, one that takes the language repertoire of a community to be an elemental observation about language. Although the linguistic repertoire of a community has not always been central to sociolinguistic analyses, important observations about repertoire form part of almost every sociolinguistic report. For more than three decades now, the linguistic repertoire of speech communities—the inventory of their registers-has won increasing attention from linguists, and quite a few have put it at the center of their research programs, some attempting to sort out the relationship between social dialect variation and register variation.
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