Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Theoretical Issues -- 1 Identity -- 2 Locating Identity in Language -- 3 Locating Language in Identity -- Part II Individuals -- 4 The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change -- 5 The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time -- 6 Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither -- 7 The Identification of the Individual Through Speech -- 8 The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals -- Part III Groups and Communities -- 9 The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community -- 10 Two Languages, Two Identities? -- 11 Communities of Practice and Peripherality -- 12 Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England -- 13 Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London -- 14 Variation and Identity in African-American English -- 15 Language, Embodiment and the 'Third Sex' -- 16 Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling -- Part IV Regions and Nations -- 17 Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling -- 18 Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms -- 19 Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities -- 20 Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border -- 21 Language and Postcolonial Identities:An African Perspective -- 22 An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots -- Bibliography -- Index.