PART ONE USERS AND USES 3
Editor's Introduction 3
1 The Users and Uses of Language(1964) 5
PART TWO SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY 41
Editor's Introduction 41
2 Language in a Social Perspective(1971) 43
3 Language and Social Man(1974) 65
4 Sociological Aspects of Semantic Change(1975) 131
5 Language as Social Semiotic:Towards a General Sociolinguistic Theory(1975) 169
6 Aspects of Sociolinguistic Research(1975) 203
PART THREE LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CLASS 221
Editor's Introduction 221
7 Foreword to Basil Bernstein's Class,Codes and Control Vol.2:Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language(1973) 223
8 Language and the Theory of Codes(1994) 231
PART FOUR LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE 249
Editor's Introduction 249
9 An Interpretation of the Functional Relationship between Language and Social Structure(1978) 251
10 Anti-languages(1976) 265
Afterword 287
Bibliography 289
Index 303