Perm school of sociolinguistics: theoretical and methodological foundations

The paper discusses the theoretical and methodological foundations, the specificity of the material and the basic aspects of research in one of Russian microsociolinguistic fields - Perm school of sociolinguistics. Close relationship between Perm school of sociolinguistics and Petersburg linguistic school, continuity of ideas in the views upon language and the studies of social phenomena in language are revealed. The description of specific approaches of Perm sociolinguistic school to the sociolect theory, intermediate idioms and interaction of social and cultural factors is presented. A survey of the main issues dealt with in the School research work is given.