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| Preface to the series | |
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| Biographical information | |
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| Introduction | |
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| English voices | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What counts as English? | |
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| Who speaks English? | |
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| When, and when not, to speak English | |
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| Responding to diversity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The English language today | |
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| Franglais | |
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| The origins of English | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The linguistic background to the emergence of English | |
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| The early Old English period: problems of interpretation | |
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| An example of Old English | |
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| The late Old English period | |
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| The transition to Middle English | |
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| Examples of Middle English | |
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| English in the later Middle Ages | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Celtic language puzzle | |
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| Modernity and English as a national language | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Modernity and the rise of a national language | |
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| Selection: Caxton and the consequences of printing | |
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| Elaboration | |
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| Codification | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Dialect speech and the discourse of democracy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Caxton on dialects | |
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| English - colonial to postcolonial | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The colonial experience | |
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| The spread of English within the British Isles | |
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| The spread of English beyond the British Isles | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Identifying Nigerian usages in Nigerian English | |
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| Accent as social symbol | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The consciousness of correctness | |
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| 'Want of method' | |
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| An educated accent | |
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| Received Pronunciation | |
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| The broadcast voice | |
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| Contesting voices | |
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| The changing situation of modern Britain | |
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| Accent evaluation revisited | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Milton Keynes and dialect levelling in south-eastern British English | |
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| Dialect variation in English | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Standard Englishes | |
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| Standard attitudes | |
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| Variety and 'macro' social factors: class, gender and age | |
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| Variety and 'micro' factors: social networks | |
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| A core of English and dialect levelling | |
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| Traditional dialects | |
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| New-dialect formation | |
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| Grammatical variety | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Singlish and Standard Singaporean English | |
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| Modals on Tyneside | |
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| Style shifting, codeswitching | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Stylistic variation in English | |
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| Switching in and out of English | |
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| Designer English? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hark, Hark the Lark: multiple voicing in DJ talk | |
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| Codeswitching with English: types of switching, types of communities | |
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| References | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |