Introduction: Social lives in language

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction: Social lives in language 1
5. Photos of Gillian: Then and now 17
6. Biographies of contributors and email addresses 19
7. Part I. Language Ideology: From the speakers, what can we learn about the language?
8. Language, mobility and (in)security: A journey through Francophone Canada 27
9. Language repertoires and the middle class in urban Solomon Islands 43
10. Land, language and identity: The socio-political origins of Gurindji Kriol 69
11. "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa. 95
12. Tok Bokis, Tok Piksa: Translating parables in Papua New Guinea 111
13. Part II. Bridging Macro- and Micro-sociolinguistics
14. Chiac in context: Overview and evaluation of Acadie's Joual 137
15. How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community 179
16. How local is local French in Quebec? 195
17. Part III. Quantitative sociolinguistics: From the languages, what can we learn about the speakers?
18. Ne deletion in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars 223
19. The dynamics of pronouns in the Québec languages in contact dynamics 249
20. Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English 273
21. Mysteries of the substrate 315
22. Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple" 327
23. Index of names 357
24. Index of subjects 361