β Scribed by Ulrich Ammon (editor)
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Foreword
I. General Description and Typological Schemes
Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies
Towards a Descriptive Framework for the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language within a Country
Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions
Functional Types of Language in India
Functional Aspects of Language Varieties β A Theoretical-Methodological Approach
II. Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties
A Normtheoretic Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language
Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia
Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch
Γber den Begriff Dachsprache
Quelque remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss
Regressed or βDowngradedβ Varieties of Language: A First Approximation
Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms
III. Official, National and International Languages
Pluricentricity: National Variety
Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis
βOfficial Languageβ: the Case of Lingala
Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages
IV. Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights
Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology
βMother Tongueβ: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept
Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society
V. Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties
20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants
The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept
On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires (An Italo-Romance View)
On Language Mixtures
Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity
Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity
The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect or Cant?
Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law βLanguageβ: Dialect, Register and/or Code?
Index of Subjects
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