Lesley Milroy is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• Editor's Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the Second Edition.Acknowledgements.1. Language, Class and Community.2. Obtaining Data in the Speech Community: Major Principles.3. Studying Language in the Community: The Fieldworker and the Social Network.4. The Social Context of Speech Events.5. The Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Data.6. The Language of the Individual Speaker: Patterns of Variation and Network Structure.7. Conclusions and Theoretical Implications.Appendix.References.Index.