Society and Language Use -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction - Society and language use -- 1. Linguistic antecedents -- 2. Antecedents in social theory -- 3. Late modern trends and issues -- References -- Accommodation theory -- 1. Overview -- 2. Speech accommodation theory -- 3. Conceptual developments -- 4. The accommodation model: Predictive or interpretive? -- 5. Discourse attuning -- References -- Agency and language -- 1. Practice theory -- 2. Anthropological contributions to practice theory -- 3. Intentionality -- 4. The grammatical encoding of agency -- 5. Talk about agency - Meta-agentive discourse -- 6. Language in action, agency in language -- References -- Authority -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Authority and the self -- 3. Authority in each other -- 4. Authority in the world -- 5. Authority in (and through) God -- 6. Authority and gender -- 7. Authority in language -- 8. Authority -- References -- Bilingualism and multilingualism -- Introduction -- 2. Four approaches to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism -- 2.1 Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to multilingualism -- 2.2 Social psychological approaches -- 2.3 Linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches -- 2.4 Sociological and anthropological approaches -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Code-switching -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Terminological and methodological issues -- 3. Early studies -- 4. The meaning of code-switching -- 4.1 The politics of code-switching -- 4.2 Code-switching in interaction -- 5. Grammatical constraints on code-switching -- 6. Future directions in code-switching research -- References -- Cognitive sociology -- 1. Historical overview -- 2. The interrelation of interactional sense-making processes and social organization -- 2.1 Interaction -- 2.2 Discourse -- 2.3 Cognition.

2.4 Organizational activities and materials -- 3. Key concepts -- 3.1 Interpretive procedures -- 3.2 Expertise -- 3.3 Social organization -- 3.4 Inequality and stratification -- 3.5 Organizational constraints -- 4. Methodology -- 5. A sample analysis -- References -- Contact -- 1. Language contact: Causes, processes and outcomes -- 2. Theoretical and methodological approaches to language contact -- 3. The pragmatics of language contact -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Correlational sociolinguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of linguistic variation -- 2.1 Tradition and innovation -- 2.2 Methodology -- 2.3 Description -- 2.4 Explanation -- 2.5 Theory -- 2.6 Application -- 3. Basic lines of argumentation: The corpus -- 4. Rules: How instances of usage are described -- 5. Language change: The perspective of explanations -- 6. Outlook -- References -- Gender -- 1. Language and gender -- 2. Pragmatic aspects of gender -- 3. The prehistory of language and gender research -- 4. The history of language and gender research -- 4.1 The 1970s -- 4.2 The 1980s -- 4.3 The 1990s -- 4.4 The 2000s: Some concluding remarks -- References -- Interactional sociolinguistics -- 1. Background -- 2. Contributions -- 3. Program -- References -- Language dominance and minorization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic hierarchy and nation-building -- 2.1 Language and nationalism -- 2.2 Official languages -- 2.3 Other dominant language ideologies -- 3. Minorization -- 3.1 International declarations of minority language rights -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Language ideologies - Evolving perspectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical emergence of language ideologies -- 3. Some key concepts -- 4. Recent developments -- 5. Perspectives for future research -- References -- Language rights.

1. Introduction: Language rights, linguistic human rights, and (linguistic) assimilation or integration -- 2. Basic concepts, continua and dichotomies -- 2.1 Who or what can have rights? -- 2.2 Individual versus collective rights -- 2.2.1 Individual rights -- 2.2.2 Collective rights -- 2.2.3 What is a minority? -- 2.3 Negative versus positive rights -- 2.4 Personal versus territorial rights -- 2.5 Rights in 'hard law' versus 'soft law' -- 2.6 Expressive versus instrumental rights -- 2.7 LHR hierarchies -- 3. LHRs in education -- 3.1 Are there any binding LHRs in education? -- 3.2 Linguistic genocide -- 4. To conclude -- References -- Marxist linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Marr vs. Stalin -- 3. Recent trends -- 4. Gramsci -- 5. Vološinov -- 6. Pêcheux -- 7. Marxist linguistics today -- References -- 'Other' representation -- 1. On representation -- 2. On 'the other' -- 3. Discourse strategies in representations of 'the other' -- 3.1 Homogenisation -- 3.2 Pejoration -- 3.3 Suppression and silencing -- 3.4 Displaying 'liberalism' -- 3.5 Subverting tolerance -- 4. Beyond minoritisation -- References -- Social institutions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The social constructivist approach to 'social institutions' -- 3. Social reproduction and the notion of symbolic resource -- 4. The discourse of social control: The reproduction of social institutions -- 5. Family discourse as a form of institutional discourse -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Speech community -- 1. Community speech and speech community: Pragmatic vs. distributional perspectives -- 2. Speech community' at the interface of 'tradition and modernity' -- 3. Late modern discourse, language and community -- 4. Communities of practice -- 5. Community' as a semiotic sign -- 6. Language ideologies and the production of community.

7. From the 'linguistics of community' to a 'linguistics of contact' -- 8. Community and discourse in the Information Age -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Symbolic interactionism -- References -- Index -- The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.