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Contributors; Preface; 1. The study of language in its socio-culturalcontext Beatriz R. Lavandera; 2. Language, culture, and world-view Jane H.Hill; 3. Language and social class Gregory R. Guy; 4. Language and race: someimplications for linguistic science John Baugh; 5. Language and gender SallyMcConnell-Ginet; 6. Bilingualism Bernard Spolsky; 7. Dialectology KeithWalters; 8. Sociolinguistics and syntactic variation David Sankoff; 9.Language birth: the processes of pidginization and creolization William A.Foley; 10. Language death Wolfgang U. Dressler; 11. Language planning: theview from linguistics Donna Christian; 12. Ethnography of speaking: towards alinguistics of the praxis Alessandro Duranti; 13. The organisation ofdiscourse Diane Blakemore; 14. Conversation analysis Deborah Schiffrin; Indexof names; Index of subjects.