Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter I: General Description and Typological Schemes -- Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies / MACKEY, WILLIAM F. -- Towards a Descriptive Framework For the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language Within a Country / AMMON, ULRICH -- Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions / FASOLD, RALPH W. -- Functional Types of Language in India / DUA, HANS R. -- Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach / HAARMANN, HARALD -- Chapter II: Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties -- A Normtheoretical Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language / BARTSCH, RENATE -- Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia / COULMAS, FLORIAN -- Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch / JOSEPH, JOHN E. -- Über den Begriff Dachsprache / MULJAČIĆ, ŽARKO -- Quelques remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss / GOEBL, HANS -- Regressed or “Downgraded Varieties” of Language: A First Approximation / ORNSTEIN-GALICIA, JACOB. L. -- Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms / PRESTON, DENNIS R. -- Chapter III: Official, National and International Languages -- Pluricentricity: National Variety / CLYNE, MICHAEL -- Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis / BRANN, CONRAD M. B. -- ‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala / SAMARIN, WILLIAM J . -- Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages / SAKAGUCHI, ALICJA -- Chapter IV: Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights -- Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology / ALLADINA, SAFDER -- ‘Mother Tongue’: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept / SKUTNABB-KANGAS, TOVE / PHILLIPSON, ROBERT -- Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society / SMOLICZ, JERZY J . / SECOMBE, MARGARET J . -- Chapter V: Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties -- 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants / AUBURGER, LEOPOLD -- The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept / Willemyns, Roland / Bister, Helga -- On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires / BERRUTO, GAETANO -- On Language Mixtures / CADIOT, PIERRE -- Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity / HONEY, JOHN -- Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity / KHUBCHANDANI, LACHMAN M. -- The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant? / LAYCOCK, DONALD C. -- Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language”: Dialect, Register, and/or Code? / McGREGOR, WILLIAM -- Subject Index -- Backmatterweiterlesen