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Preface to the series | p. i |
Biographical information | p. ii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
English voices | p. 5 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
What counts as English? | p. 5 |
Who speaks English? | p. 11 |
When, and when not, to speak English | p. 15 |
Responding to diversity | p. 26 |
Conclusion | p. 28 |
The English language today | p. 29 |
Franglais | p. 33 |
The origins of English | p. 39 |
Introduction | p. 39 |
The linguistic background to the emergence of English | p. 40 |
The early Old English period: problems of interpretation | p. 42 |
An example of Old English | p. 50 |
The late Old English period | p. 59 |
The transition to Middle English | p. 64 |
Examples of Middle English | p. 67 |
English in the later Middle Ages | p. 70 |
Conclusion | p. 73 |
The Celtic language puzzle | p. 74 |
Modernity and English as a national language | p. 79 |
Introduction | p. 79 |
Modernity and the rise of a national language | p. 79 |
Selection: Caxton and the consequences of printing | p. 85 |
Elaboration | p. 87 |
Codification | p. 98 |
Implementation | p. 106 |
Dialect speech and the discourse of democracy | p. 110 |
Conclusion | p. 112 |
Caxton on dialects | p. 113 |
English - colonial to postcolonial | p. 117 |
Introduction | p. 117 |
The colonial experience | p. 117 |
The spread of English within the British Isles | p. 125 |
The spread of English beyond the British Isles | p. 133 |
Conclusion | p. 147 |
Identifying Nigerian usages in Nigerian English | p. 149 |
Accent as social symbol | p. 153 |
Introduction | p. 153 |
The consciousness of correctness | p. 154 |
'Want of method' | p. 157 |
An educated accent | p. 158 |
Received Pronunciation | p. 162 |
The broadcast voice | p. 165 |
Contesting voices | p. 167 |
The changing situation of modern Britain | p. 169 |
Accent evaluation revisited | p. 174 |
Conclusion | p. 178 |
Milton Keynes and dialect levelling in south-eastern British English | p. 179 |
Dialect variation in English | p. 189 |
Introduction | p. 189 |
Standard Englishes | p. 190 |
Standard attitudes | p. 192 |
Variety and 'macro' social factors: class, gender and age | p. 194 |
Variety and 'micro' factors: social networks | p. 200 |
A core of English and dialect levelling | p. 202 |
Traditional dialects | p. 204 |
New-dialect formation | p. 205 |
Grammatical variety | p. 208 |
Conclusion | p. 220 |
Singlish and Standard Singaporean English | p. 222 |
Modals on Tyneside | p. 224 |
Style shifting, codeswitching | p. 227 |
Introduction | p. 227 |
Stylistic variation in English | p. 228 |
Switching in and out of English | p. 242 |
Designer English? | p. 250 |
Conclusion | p. 254 |
Hark, Hark the Lark: multiple voicing in DJ talk | p. 256 |
Codeswitching with English: types of switching, types of communities | p. 263 |
References | p. 269 |
Acknowledgements | p. 281 |
Index | p. 283 |
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