Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Linguistic varieties
Chapter 3 Language and culture
Chapter 4 Language and political power
Chapter 5 Language and the press, radio and television
Chapter 6 Gender, age and social class in the socio-cultural context
Chapter 7 Language and social identity
Chapter 8 Language change in social perspective
Chapter 9 Language planning
Chapter 10 Language problems in the twenty-first century
Chapter 11 Language projection
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