Part 1: structure and agency in language introduction, Ferdinand de Saussure, Benedetto Croce, V.N. Voloshinox; language in history - introduction, Ferdinand de Saussure, Leo Spitzer, Raymond Williams, Deborah Cameron, Muriel Schultz; language and subjectivity - introduction, Ferdinand de Saussure, Benjamin Lee Whorf, L.S. Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan; language and gende - introduction, Dale Spender, Robin Lakoff, Helene Cixous, Denise Riley, Judith Butler; language and sexuality, Luce Irigaray, Edmund White, Hortense J. Spillers, Deborah Cameron. Part 2: unity and diversity in language, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jan Mukarovsky, Paul L. Garvin; language communities, Leonard Bloomfield, Mikhail Bakhtin, Antonio Gramsci; language and nation, Elie Kedourie, Karl Vossler, Benedict Anderson; Englishes - introduction, H.L. Mencken, Tom Paulin, David Dabydeen, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Braj B. Kachru; language and creativity - introduction, Roman Jakobson, Paul Ricoeur, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, G.I. Vinokur. Part 3: languages, cultures, communities languages/cultures, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Sapir, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes; language and colonialism - introduction, Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo, David Lloyd; language, class and education, Basil Bernstein, William Labov, Pierre Bourdieu, Brian Cox.