Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- 1. Introduction: Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions -- Part 1: Sociolinguistic Frameworks Tuned to Social Change -- 2. Interactional Sociolinguistics -- 3. Linguistic Ethnography -- 4. Sociolinguistic Citizenship -- Part 2: Ethnicity, Race and Class in Micro-practices of Diff erentiation and Alignment -- 5. Ethnicities without Guarantees -- 6. Style Contrasts, Migration and Social Class -- 7. From 'Youth Language' to Contemporary Urban Vernaculars -- 8. Styling in a Language Learnt Later in Life -- Part 3: Everyday (In)securitisation -- 9. Sociolinguistics and Everyday (In)securitisation -- 10. Crossing of a Different Kind -- 11. Goff man and the Everyday Experience of Surveillance -- Afterword. Jan Blommaert and the Uses of Sociolinguistics: Critical, Political, Personal -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index