Three Dilemmas of Organized Efforts to Reverse Language Shift

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. I. National or Official Languages
5. Linguistic Legislation and Prestige Shift 3
6. The Role of Pressure Groups in the Change of the Status of French in Québec since 1960 17
7. Changes in the Status and Function of Quechua 43
8. Status Types and Status Changes in the Arabic Language 65
9. Status Change of Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa 100
10. Socioeconomic Transitions and Language Status Change: The Case of Luxembourg 140
11. Language Status Shift in the United States: A European Perspective 164
12. Hindi Language Planning: A Case Study of Status Change 178
13. In Search of Status: Bahasa Malaysia for National Unification 200
14. II. Nonstandard or Standardizing Languages
15. The Status of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Predicament 229
16. The Changing Status of Melanesian Pidgin English 253
17. Function and Status Change of Pidgin and Creole Languages 264
18. III. Non-Official or Minority Languages
19. Three Dilemmas of Organized Efforts to Reverse Language Shift 285
20. The Changing Status of U. S. Spanish: de Facto Second Language? 294
21. The Status of a Minority Language in India: A Case Study of Maithili 311
22. Status and Function Changes of Dutch as an Immigrant Language in Australia 324
23. Problems of Status and Status Change of Yiddish 332
24. The Changing Status of English in Switzerland 355
25. Evolution et Statut des Variantes Standard et Dialectales de l’Allemand en Alsace 371
26. IV. Varieties of German
27. The Status of German as a Language of Science and the Importance of the English Language for German-Speaking Scientists 391
28. Recent Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Chemistry 408
29. On the Status and Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Diplomacy 421
30. Phases of Language Maintenance and Shift: On the Status of Michigan Franconian 439
31. Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Status Change: The Case of the Old Order Amish and Related Groups 457
32. V. Special Topics
33. Assessing Language Status: Some Problems 487
34. Der Weg von einem Sprachprojekt zu einer lebenden Welthilfssprache. Einige Aspekte des Statuswandels, dargestellt am Beispiel des Esperanto 496
35. Deference, Politeness and the Status of Language – A Study in the Variability and Changeability of a Crucial Relationship 521
36. Sachregister 541
37. Backmatter 549