Introduction: Social Worlds through Language--N Coupland and A Jaworski* PART I: SOCIOLINGUISTICS: ORIGINS AND APPROACHES * Editorial Introduction to Part I * On Communicative Competence--D.Hymes* Objectivity and Commitment in Linguistic Science--W.Labov* The Sociology of Language--J.Fishman* Language in a Social Perspective--M.Halliday* Speech Community--B.Rampton* Language and Communities of Practice--J.Holmes and M.Meyerhoff* PART II: DIALECT AND LANGUAGE VARIATION SURVEYS * Editorial Introduction to Part II * Dialect in Society--W.

Wolfram* The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores--W.Labov* The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich--P.Trudgill* Linguistic Variation and Vernacular Culture--J.Cheshire* Network Structure and Linguistic Change--J.Milroy and L.Milroy* Quotative BE+LIKE in Canada and Britain--S.Tagliamonte and R.Hudson* Demythologising Sociolinguistics--D.

Cameron* PART III: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY * Editorial Introduction to Part III * Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?--W.O'Barr and B.K.Atkins* Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls--J.Coates* 'Why Be Normal?': The Language and Identity Practices of Nerd Girls--M.Bucholtz* Indexing Gender--E.Ochs* Fraternity Men: Variation and Identity--S.Kiesling* No--D.

Kulick* Interaction: The Work Women Do--P.Fishman* PART IV: STYLE, STYLISATION AND IDENTITY * Editorial Introduction to Part IV * Style as Distinctiveness--J.Irvine* Accommodation Theory--H.Giles* Language Style as Audience Design--A.Bell* Acts of Conflicting Identity: The Sociolinguistics of British Pop-song Pronunciation--P.Trudgill* Yorkville Crossing--C.Cutler* PART V: LANGUAGE ATTITUDES, IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL STEREOTYPES * Editorial Introduction to Part V * Social Groups and Social Stereotypes--M.Hewstone and H.

Giles* Perceptual Dialectology--D.Preston* Social Class Differences and the Identification of Sex in Children's Speech--J.Edwards* Language Ideology--K.Woolard* Race, Class and Language Ideology--L.Milroy* PART VI: MULTILINGUALISM, CODE-SWITCHING AND DIGLOSSIA * Editorial Introduction to Part VI * Language Types in Multilingual Situations--W.Stewart* Classical Diglossia--C.Ferguson* Code-switching in Conversation--P.Auer* Pidgin English Advertising--S.

Romaine* Patois and the Politics of Protest: Black English in British Classrooms--V.Edwards* Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community--S.Gal* Language Death--N.Dorian* Sociolinguistics and Globalisation--J.Blommaert* PART VII: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND INTERACTION * Editorial Introduction to Part VII * The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language--B.L.Whorf* Poetics and Performance--R.Bauman and C.

Briggs* Rules for Ritual Insults--W.Labov* Politeness, Power and Humour in the Workplace--J.Holmes* Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom--S.U.Phillips* 'Griping' as a Verbal Ritual--T.Katriel* IndexIntroduction: Social Worlds through Language--N Coupland and A Jaworski* PART I: SOCIOLINGUISTICS: ORIGINS AND APPROACHES * Editorial Introduction to Part I * On Communicative Competence--D.Hymes* Objectivity and Commitment in Linguistic Science--W.Labov* The Sociology of Language--J.

Fishman* Language in a Social Perspective--M.Halliday* Speech Community--B.Rampton* Language and Communities of Practice--J.Holmes and M.Meyerhoff* PART II: DIALECT AND LANGUAGE VARIATION SURVEYS * Editorial Introduction to Part II * Dialect in Society--W.Wolfram* The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores--W.Labov* The Social Differe.