Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction TONY BEX AND RICHARD J.WATTS -- Introduction to Part I -- The consequences of standardisation in descriptive linguistics JAMES MILROY -- The social construction of Standard English: Grammar writers as a 'discourse community' RICHARD J.WATTS -- Typography, lexicography and the development of the idea of 'standard English' HAYLEY DAVIS -- Representations of English in twentieth-century Britain: Fowler, Gowers and Partridge TONY BEX -- Introduction to Part II -- Standard English: What it isn't PETER TRUDGILL -- Spoken standard English JENNY CHESHIRE -- Standard grammars, spoken grammars: Some educational implications RONALD CARTER -- Introduction to Part III -- Standard English and language ideology in Britain and the United States LESLEY MILROY -- The names of US English: Valley girl, cowboy, yankee, normal, nasal and ignorant LAURA C.HARTLEY AND DENNIS R.PRESTON -- Functions and forms of English in a European EFL country BENT PREISLER -- EPILOGUE -- Curiouser and curiouser: Falling standards in the standard English debate TONY CROWLEY -- Bibliography -- Index.