1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: Social lives in language (by Nagy, Naomi); 3. Photos of Gillian: Then and now; 4. Biographies of contributors and email addresses; 5. Part I. Language Ideology: From the speakers, what can we learn about the language?; 6. Language, mobility and (in)security: A journey through Francophone Canada (by Daveluy, Michelle); 7. Language repertoires and the middle class in urban Solomon Islands (by Jourdan, Christine); 8. Land, language and identity: The socio-political origins of Gurindji Kriol (by Meakins, Felicity); 9. "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa. (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 10. Tok Bokis, Tok Piksa: Translating parables in Papua New Guinea (by Schieffelin, Bambi B.); 11. Part II. Bridging Macro- and Micro-sociolinguistics; 12. Chiac in context: Overview and evaluation of Acadie's Joual (by King, Ruth); 13. How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community (by Sankoff, David); 14. How local is local French in Quebec? (by Thibault, Pierrette); 15. Part III. Quantitative sociolinguistics: From the languages, what can we learn about the speakers?; 16. Ne deletion in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars (by Auger, Julie); 17. The dynamics of pronouns in the Quebec languages in contact dynamics (by Blondeau, Helene); 18. Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English (by Blondeau, Helene); 19. Mysteries of the substrate (by Labov, William); 20. Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple" (by Meyerhoff, Miriam); 21. Index of names; 22. Index of subjects