Introduction David Britain Part I. English: 1. History of English James Milroy 2. Standard and non-standard English Paul Kerswill 3. Phonological variation in England Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty 4. Grammatical variation in England David Britain 5. Scottish English and Scots Paul Johnston 6. Northern Irish English Kevin McCafferty 7. Southern Irish English Raymond Hickey 8. English in Wales Robert Penhallurick 9. English on the Isle of Man Andrew Hamer 10. English in the Channel Islands Heinrich Ramisch Part II. The Celtic Languages: 11. The history of the Celtic languages in the British Isles Paul Russell 12. Gaelic Kenneth MacKinnon 13. Irish Padraig O Riagain 14. Welsh Martin Ball Part III. Other Languages of the British Isles: 15. Multilingualism Mark Gibson 16. Caribbean creoles and Black English Mark Sebba 17. Indic languages Mike Reynolds and Mahendra Verma 18. Chinese Li Wei 19. European immigrant languages Penelope Gardner-Chloros 20. Sign languages Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence 21. Channel Island French Mari Jones 22. Angloromani Peter Bakker and Donald Kenrick Part IV. Applied Sociolinguistic Issues: 23. Language policy and planning Dennis Ager 24. Non-standard English and education Ann Williams 25. Education and languages other than English Ben Rampton, Roxy Harris and Constant Leung.
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