Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical Issues -- 1. Identity -- 2. Locating Identity in Language -- 3. Locating Language in Identity -- Part II. Individuals -- 4. The Role of the Individual in Language Variation and Change -- 5. The Ageing Voice: Changing Identity Over Time -- 6. Foreign Accent Syndrome: Between Two Worlds, At Home in Neither -- 7. The Identification of the Individual Through Speech -- 8. The Disguised Voice: Imitating Accents or Speech Styles and Impersonating Individuals -- Part III. Groups and Communities -- 9. The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community -- 10. Two Languages, Two Identities? -- 11. Communities of Practice and Peripherality -- 12. Crossing Into Class: Language, Ethnicities and Class Sensibility in England -- 13. Ethnicity, Religion and Practices: Adolescents in the East End of London -- 14. Variation and Identity in African-American English -- 15. Language, Embodiment and the 'Third Sex' -- 16. Gendered Identities in the Professional Workplace: Negotiating the Glass Ceiling -- Part IV. Regions and Nations -- 17. Supralocal Regional Dialect Levelling -- 18. Migration, National Identity and the Reallocation of Forms -- 19. Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities -- 20. Convergence and Divergence Across a National Border -- 21. Language and Postcolonial Identities: An African Perspective -- 22. An Historical National Identity? The Case of Scots -- Bibliography -- Index