Frontmatter -- Contents -- Authenticity: A view from inside and outside sociolinguistics -- Language, society and authenticity: Themes and perspectives -- Section I: Indexing local meanings of authenticity -- The trouble with authenticity -- Chinese social practice and San Franciscan authenticity -- Being more alternative and less Brit-pop: The quest for originality in three urban styles in Athens -- "100 % Authentic Pittsburgh": Sociolinguistic authenticity and the linguistics of particularity -- 'Oh boy, ¿hablas español?' - Salsa and the multiple value of authenticity in late capitalism -- The commodification of authenticity -- Section 2: Indexing authenticity in delocalised settings -- The race from place: Dialect eradication vs. the linguistic "authenticity" of terroir -- Reported Speech as an authentication tactic in computer-mediated communication -- Authenticity in dialect performance? -- From vernacular to digital ethnolinguistic repertoire: The case of Nigerian Pidgin -- Hybridity as authenticity in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics -- Section 3: Authenticity construction in other mediatised contexts -- Authentic writing -- Lexical variation at the internationalized university: Are indexicality and authenticity always relevant? -- "Real communities", rhetorical borders: Authenticating British identity in political discourse and on-line debate -- What's in a promesse authentique? Doubting and confirming authenticity in 17th-century French diplomacy -- Index