Acknowledgements Transcription conventions 1. Introduction: Creole comes to Britain 2. In search of "London Jamaican" 3. Continuum and variation - approaches to describing Creole 4. London Jamaican .? 5.or Black London English? 6. Language within the family 7.

Code switching in converstion 8. The many-personed speaker 9. Epilogue: Creole and the future - the language of education Appendices: the two systems; the conversations Bibliography Index.