An Introduction to Language and Society

Part One: The Development of Language 1. The beginnings of language development 2. Dialogue and language development Part Two : Linguistic Diversity and the Speech Community 3. Language and regional variation: accent and dialect 4. Language and ethnic identity: British Black English 5. Language and subcultures: anti-language 6. Language and situation: register 7. Language and social class: restricted and elaborated speech variants 8. Language and Gender 9. Linguistic diversity and the speech community