• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• By Laurel Sutton
• 1. Language in context (1972)
• Introduction by Sally McConnell-Ginet
• 2. The logic of politeness; or, Minding your P's and Q's (1973)
• Introduction by Sachiko Ide
• 3. Excerpts from two 1974 papers: Pluralism in linguistics; Linguistic theory and the real world
• Introduction by Birch Moonwomon
• 4. You say what you are: Acceptability and gender-related language (1977)
• Introduction by Mary Bucholtz
• 5. Stylistic strategies within a grammar of style (1979)
• Introduction by Deborah Tannen
• 6. When talk is not cheap: Psychotherapy as conversation (1979)
• Introduction by Joan Swann
• 7. Some of my favorite writers are literate (1982)
• Introduction by Jenny Cook-Gumperz
• 8. Persuasive discourse and ordinary conversation: Advertising as an example (1982)
• Introduction by Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith
• 9. Doubletalk: Sexism in tech talk (1983)
• Introduction by Susan Ervin-Tripp
• 10. My life in court (1986)
• Introduction by Susan Blackwell
• 11. The way we were; or; The real actual truth about generative semantics: A memoir
• (1989)
• Introduction by Georgia Green
• 12. Women and disability (review essay) (1989)
• Introduction by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 13. Pragmatics and the law: Speech act theory confronts the First Amendment (1992)
• Introduction by Susan C. Herring
• 14. The rhetoric of reproduction (1992)
• Introduction by Laurel A. Sutton
• 15. True confessions? Pragmatic competence and criminal confession (1996)
• Introduction by Linda Coleman
• 16. Afterword
• by Robin Lakoff