Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria -- 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles -- 4. Acceptability in Context -- 5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability -- 6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language -- 7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery -- 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina -- 9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar -- 10. Acceptability in a Revived Language -- 11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions -- 12. The Use of ought in Teenage English -- 13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context