In chap. 8, which looks at the modulation of word meaning, language typology is discussed in relation to acquisition.
Instead of being in their offices doctors work out of their offices and another chap operates his business out of his address.
Finally, chap. 12 offers a prospective of the world's languages.
The identities analyzed in the data-based chapters are masculinity (chap. 4), ethnicity and nationality (chap. 5), and masculinity together with ethnicity (chap. 6).
The streams metaphors appear in chap. 4, 86- 88.
In chap. 10, the importance of language attitudes as determinants of linguistic behavior is discussed.
His 1990 book (chap. 7) comprehensively reviews research done on these sections up to the late 1980s.
Finally, chap. 11 seeks to answer the question of how developmental patterns observed across the languages are related across the three domains.
