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