Both Tony Crowley and Lucy Burke are in the English Department at the University of Manchester. Tony is Professor of English and was departmental head for last year. He is co-editor for our Politics of Language series. Alan Girvin has recently moved to the University of Strathclyde. Lucy and Alan are both lecturers in their respective English departments.

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• General Introduction Part One: Structure and Agency in Language Ferdinand de Saussure Benedetto Croce V.N. Volosinov ii Language in History Ferdinand de Saussure Leo Spitzer Raymond Williams Muriel R Schultz Deborah Cameron iii. Language and Subjectivity Ferdinand de Saussure Benjamin Lee Whorf L.S. Vygotsky Sigmund Freud Jacques Lacan iv. Language and Gender Dale Spender Robin Lakoff Helene Cixous Denise Riley Judith Butler v. Language and Sexuality Introduction Luce Irigaray Edmund White Hortense J. Spillers Deborah Cameron Part Two: Unity and Diversity in Language Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida Jan Mukarovsky ii. Language Communities Leonard Bloomfield Mikhail Bakhtin Antonio Gramsci Karl Vossler Benedict Anderson iii. Englishes H.L. Mencken Tom Paulin David Dabydeen Edward Kamau Braithwaite Braj B. Kachru iv. Language and Creativity Roman Jakobson Paul Ricoeur Julia Kristeva G.I. Vinokur Part Three: Languages, Cultures, Communities i. Languages/Cultures Franz Boas Bronislaw Malinowski Edward Sapir Claude Levi-Strauss Roland Barthes ii. Language and Colonialism Frantz Fanon Chinua Achebe Ngugi wa Thiong'o iii. Language, Class and Education Basil Bernstein William Labov Pierre Bourdieu Brian Cox