The routledge language and cultural theory reader

The nature of the linguistic sign / Ferdinand de Saussure

The identity of linguistic and aesthetic / Benedetto Croce

Multiaccentuality and the sign / V. N. Voloshinov

Language and linguistics / Ferdinand de Saussure

The individual factor in linguistic innovations / Leo Spitzer

Introduction to Keywords / Raymond Williams

The semantic derogation of woman / Muriel R. Schulz

Problems of 'prescriptivism' / Deborah Cameron

Linguistic value / Ferdinand de Saussure

Science and linguistics / Benjamin Lee Whorf

Thought and word / L. S. Vygotsky

Slips of the tongue / Sigmund Freud

The signification of the phallus / Jacques Lacan

Language and reality: who made the world? / Dale Spender

Talking like a lady / Robin Lakoff

The laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous

Does a sex have a history? / Denise Riley / From parody to politics / Judith Butler

When our lips speak together / Luce Irigaray

The political vocabulary of homosexuality / Edmund White

Interstices: a small drama of words / Hortense J. Spillers

Naming of parts / Deborah Cameron

Standard language and poetic language / Jan Mukarovsky

The discourse of language / Michael Foucault

Semiology and grammatology: interview with Julia Kristeva / Jacques Derrida

Language communities / Karl Vossler

Speech-communities / Leonard Bloomfield

Unitary Language / Mikhail Bakhtin

Normative grammar / Antonio Gramsci

English or American? / H. L. Mencken

A new look at the language question / Tom Paulin

On not being Milton: Nigger talk in England today / David Dabydeen

Nation language / Edward K. Brathwaite

The alchemy of English / Braj B. Kachru

Linguistics and poetics / Roman Jakobson

The creativity of language / Paul Ricoeur

Revolution in poetic language / Julia Kristeva

The futurists - constructors of language / G. I. Vinokur

Race and language / Franz Boas

The problem of meaning in primitive languages / Bronislaw Malinowski

The status of linguistics as a science / Edward Sapir

Linguistics and anthropology / Claude Levi-Strauss

Myth today / Roland Barthes

The Negro and language / Frantz Fanon

The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe

The language of African literature / Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Social class, language and socialization / Basil Bernstein

The logic of non-standard English / William Labov

The production and reproduction of legitimate language / Pierre Bourdieu

Teaching standard English / Brian Cox.