i-iv -- Preface Foreword Contents INTRODUCTION -- The Language of Imperialism: Unity or Pluralism? SECTION ONE: ORIGINS AND PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY -- LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY -- Patterns of Sociolinguistic Inequality in Mesoamerica The Fate of Spanish in the United States: The Puerto Rican Experience The Language of Power in Cree Interethnic Communication PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE CHOICE -- Ethnic Relations and Language Use in Montréal Catalonia: The Dilemma of Language Rights The Special Relation of Guarani and Spanish in Paraguay LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN THE COMMUNITY -- Vernacular and Standard Swahili as Seen by Members of the Mombasa Swahili Speech Community Standard and Non-Standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum PATTERNS OF SHIFT AND MAINTENANCE: A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH -- The Ultimate Inequality: Linguistic Genocide The Imperial Languages of the Andes Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Some Data from Australia The Lively Life of a "Dead" Language (or "Everyone Knows that Yiddish Died Long Ago") SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT -- LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL PLANNING: OVERT AND COVERT INFLUENCES -- The Social Context of Language Standardization in India English, Swahili, or Other Languages? The Relationship of Educational Development Goals to Language of Instruction in Kenya and Tanzania Linguistic Inequality in Hawaii: The Post-Creole Dilemma The Sociology of Language Learning and Teaching in a Creole Situation The New Language Policy in Nigeria: Its Problems and Its Chances of Success CLASSROOM INTERACTION AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- Bilingual Education in Peru and Bolivia Indian Children in Anglo Classrooms Expressing Alienation: Creole in the Classroom LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUNCTIONS OF MULTILINGUALISM -- Language and Social Mobility in Singapore Sociolinguistic Inequality and Language Problems of Linguistic Minorities in India The Status of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) and Attitudes Towards It Language and Development in Africa: The Unequal Equation Diversity in Communication and Languages; Predicament of a Multilingual Nation State: India, A Case Study List of Contributors 412