I-IV -- Preface -- Introduction -- Language conflict and language planning in Ireland -- Conflicting ideologies in contemporary Norwegian language planning -- Sociolinguistic events in an intranational borderland: A nudge to a diverging nation -- Language conflict in Madagascar around AD 700 -- Parallels and differences in the linguistic development of modern Greece and modern Norway -- From small to large-scale language conflicts: A philosophical perspective -- Sami language communities and the conflict between Sami and Norwegian -- Language planning from a management perspective: An interpretation of findings -- Conflicts of metaphor in the discussion of language and race -- Contact or conflict? Observations on the dynamics and vitality of European languages -- Language conflict in Jerusalem - 1880 and 1980 -- Conflict between Irish and English in the secondary schools of the Connemara Gaeltacht 1986-1988 -- On the choice between two written standards in Norway -- Principles of corpus planning - as applied to the spelling reforms of Indonesia and Malaysia -- Some conditions for the survival of small languages -- Index