Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages -- Chapter 2. Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many -- Chapter 3. Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus? -- Chapter 4. The Myth of English as an International Language -- Chapter 5. Beyond 'Language': Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology -- Chapter 6. Entering a Culture Quietly: Writing and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Education in Brazil -- Chapter 7. A Linguistics of Communicative Activity -- Chapter 8. (Dis)inventing Discourse: Examples from Black Culture and Hiphop Rap/ Discourse -- Chapter 9 .Educational Materials Reflecting Heteroglossia: Disinventing Ethnolinguistic Differences in Bosnia- Herzegovina -- Chapter 10. After Disinvention: Possibilities for Communication, Community and Competence -- Index