Language of Inequality

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Foreword -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- The Language of Imperialism: Unity or Pluralism? / Haugen, Einar -- SECTION ONE: ORIGINS AND PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY -- LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY -- Patterns of Sociolinguistic Inequality in Mesoamerica / Fought, John -- The Fate of Spanish in the United States: The Puerto Rican Experience / Zentella, Ana Celia -- The Language of Power in Cree Interethnic Communication / Darnell, Regna -- PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE CHOICE -- Ethnic Relations and Language Use in Montréal / Heller, Monica -- Catalonia: The Dilemma of Language Rights / Woolard, Kathryn A. -- The Special Relation of Guarani and Spanish in Paraguay / Rubin, Joan -- LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN THE COMMUNITY -- Vernacular and Standard Swahili as Seen by Members of the Mombasa Swahili Speech Community / Wald, Benji -- Standard and Non-Standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum / Rickford, John R. -- PATTERNS OF SHIFT AND MAINTENANCE: A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH -- The Ultimate Inequality: Linguistic Genocide / Day, Richard R. -- The Imperial Languages of the Andes / Hardman de Bautista, Martha -- Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Some Data from Australia / Clyne, Michael -- The Lively Life of a "Dead" Language (or "Everyone Knows that Yiddish Died Long Ago") / Fishman, Joshua A. -- SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT -- LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL PLANNING: OVERT AND COVERT INFLUENCES -- The Social Context of Language Standardization in India / Southworth, Franklin C. -- English, Swahili, or Other Languages? The Relationship of Educational Development Goals to Language of Instruction in Kenya and Tanzania / Zuengler, Jane -- Linguistic Inequality in Hawaii: The Post-Creole Dilemma / Sato, Charlene J. -- The Sociology of Language Learning and Teaching in a Creole Situation / Craig, Dennis R. -- The New Language Policy in Nigeria: Its Problems and Its Chances of Success / Dada, Ayorinde -- CLASSROOM INTERACTION AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- Bilingual Education in Peru and Bolivia / Briggs, Lucy ?. -- Indian Children in Anglo Classrooms / Philips, Susan U. -- Expressing Alienation: Creole in the Classroom / Edwards, Viv -- LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUNCTIONS OF MULTILINGUALISM -- Language and Social Mobility in Singapore / Kuo, Eddie C. Y. -- Sociolinguistic Inequality and Language Problems of Linguistic Minorities in India / Dua, Hans R. -- The Status of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) and Attitudes Towards It / Wurm, Stephen ?. -- Language and Development in Africa: The Unequal Equation / Spencer, John -- Diversity in Communication and Languages; Predicament of a Multilingual Nation State: India, A Case Study / Pattanayak, D. P. -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter