Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Language choices: Contact and conflict? — Introduciton ix
4. Section I: Language contact and language choice: Sociolinguistic and linguistic issues
5. Language ecology — contact without conflict 3
6. Towards a dynamic view of multlingualism 17
7. A matter of choice 31
8. The choice of linguae francae in triglossic environments in Africa 45
9. Towards an ethnography of language shift 55
10. Language shift and sentence processing in Moroccan Arabic 77
11. Is airbagging hip or mega-out? A new dictionary of anglicisms 91
12. Section II: Language policy and language planning
13. Lessons for Europe from language policy in Australia 115
14. National-variety purism in the naional centers of the German language 161
15. Towards a plurilingual urban environment 179
16. Double allegiance between nationalism and Western modernization in language choice 195
17. An evaluative account of Ethiopia’s new language policy 207
18. Looking at means and ends in language policy in Namibia 223
19. Section III: Language use and attitudes towards language(s)
20. Language assesment tools 253
21. An ethnographic method for studying attitudes towards child language 275
22. Language attitudes in Switzerland 287
23. Communication in the Alemannic area 305
24. Language attitudes and the linguistic construction of ethnic identity 327
25. Section 4: code-switching — One speaker, two languages
26. Contacts and conficts — perspective from code-switching research 341
27. Code-switching processes 361
28. ‘I’ll meet you halfway with language’ 381
29. Subject index 423
30. List of Contributors 429