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In:Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences
Edited by Martin Pütz
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 1] 1997
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 13 February 1997
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Table of contents

Language choices: Contact and conflict? — Introducitonix
Section I: Language contact and language choice: Sociolinguistic and linguistic issues
Language ecology — contact without conflict3
Towards a dynamic view of multlingualism17
A matter of choice31
The choice of linguae francae in triglossic environments in Africa45
Towards an ethnography of language shift: Goals and methods55
Language shift and sentence processing in Moroccan Arabic77
Is airbagging hip or mega-out? A new dictionary of anglicisms91
Section II: Language policy and language planning
Lessons for Europe from language policy in Australia115
National-variety purism in the naional centers of the German language161
Towards a plurilingual urban environment: language policy and language planning in Brussels179
Double allegiance between nationalism and Western modernization in language choice: The case of Botswana and Tanzania195
An evaluative account of Ethiopia’s new language policy207
Looking at means and ends in language policy in Namibia223
Section III: Language use and attitudes towards language(s)
Language assesment tools: Uses and limitations253
An ethnographic method for studying attitudes towards child language275
Language attitudes in Switzerland: French and German along the language border287
Communication in the Alemannic area: Language use and attitudes in Colmar and Freiburg305
Language attitudes and the linguistic construction of ethnic identity: The case of Krio in Sierre Leone327
Section 4: code-switching — One speaker, two languages
Contacts and conficts — perspective from code-switching research341
Code-switching processes: Alternation, insertion, congruent lexicalization361
‘I’ll meet you halfway with language’: Code-switching within a south African urban context381
Subject index423
List of Contributors429
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