Table of Contents

Foreword: Towards a Sociolinguistic History of the English Language; Chapter 1: Sociolinguistic Concepts and Methods; Chapter 2: Language Change and Sociolinguistic Processes in the Past; Chapter 3: Standardisation; Chapter 4: Codification and Ideology; Chapter 5: Contact and Shift as Agents of Change; Chapter 7: Some Final Thoughts.

About the Author

Robert McColl Millar is Senior Lecturer in linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. He has published widely on topics relating to the language use of northern Scotland, as well as on language change and the sociology of language.