Harris, Roy (1998) “Language as a Social Interaction: Integrationalism versus Segregationalism” in Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader (eds.) Roy Harris & George Wolf: 5-45. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.

As Silverstein did in an article published as recently as 1977, that certain ‘cultural prerequisites’, as he called them, need to be taken into account for purposes of grammatical analysis. In other words, if the linguist is to give a full and satisfactory account of native speakers’ mastery of their language, that account cannot ignore the speakers’ awareness of certain context-dependent social practices that must be presupposed if certain type of linguistic expression are to make any kind of sense at all. – 6

Segregational analysis treats language and languages as objects of study existing in their own right, independently of other varieties of communication and amenable to description in terms that are quite separate from those used in any other discipline. – 6

the integrational approach, sees language as manifested in a complex of human abilities and activities that are all integrated in social interaction, often intricately so and in such a manner that it makes little sense to segregate the linguistic from the non-linguistic components. – 6