PART 1 : AMERICAN ENGLISH
American English: its origins and history / Richard W. Bailey
American English and its distinctiveness / Edward Finegan
Regional dialects / William Kretzschmar
Social varieties of American English / Walt Wolfram
African American English / Lisa Green
The dictionary of American regional English / Joan Houston Hall
PART 2 : OTHER LANGUAGE VARIETIES
Multilingualism and non-English mother tongues / Joshua A Fishman
Creole languages forging new identities / Patricia Nichols
Native American languages / Akira Y. Yamamoto, Ofelia Zepeda
Spanish in the Northeast / Ana Celia Zentella
Spanish in the Southwest / Carmen Silva-Corvalán
American sign language / Cecil Lucas, Clayton Valli
Asian American voices / Thom Huebner, Linda Uyechi
Linguistic diversity and English language acquisition / Robert Bayley
PART 3 : THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC SITUATION
Language ideology and language prejudice / Rosina Lippi-Green
Ebonics and its controversy / John Baugh
Language planning, language policy, and the English-only Movement / Terrence G. Wiley
Language in Education / Lily Wong Fillmore
Adolescent language / Penelope Eckert
Slang / Connie Eble
Hip Hop Nation Language / H. Samy Alim
Language, gender and sexuality / Mary Bucholtz
Language identity and community in American literature / James Peterson
The language of doctors and patients / Cynthia Hagstrom
The language of cyberspace / Denise E. Murray
Language attitudes to speech / Dennis R. Preston.