Table of Contents

1. Preface to the series; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction - Society and language use (by Jaspers, Jurgen); 4. Accommodation theory (by Coupland, Nikolas); 5. Agency and language (by Ahearn, Laura M.); 6. Authority (by Wilson, John); 7. Bilingualism and multilingualism (by Heller, Monica); 8. Code-switching (by Auer, Peter); 9. Cognitive sociology (by Saferstein, Barry); 10. Contact (by Wei, Li); 11. Correlational sociolinguistics (by Dittmar, Norbert); 12. Gender (by Lakoff, Robin T.); 13. Interactional sociolinguistics (by Verschueren, Jef); 14. Language dominance and minorization (by Patrick, Donna); 15. Language ideologies - Evolving perspectives (by Kroskrity, Paul V.); 16. Language rights (by Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove); 17. Marxist linguistics (by Helsloot, Niels); 18. 'Other' representation (by Coupland, Nikolas); 19. Social institutions (by Watts, Richard J.); 20. Speech community (by Rampton, Ben); 21. Symbolic interactionism (by Watson, Rod); 22. Index