International Journal of the Sociology of Language



1)1999, Issue 136
-- Post-Apartheid South Africa --

2)1999, Issue 137
-- Language and Politics: Theory and Cases --

3)1999, Issue 138

4)1999, Issue 139



 1999, Issue 136
Post-Apartheid South Africa

Edited by Kay McCormick and Rajend Mesthrie

RAJEND MESTHRIE and KAY McCORMICK
Introduction

DARYL MCLEAN
Neocolonizing the mind? Emergent trends in language policy for South African education

ATHALIE CRAWFORD
"We can't all understand the whites' language": an analysis of monolingual health services in a multilingual society

EVE BERTELSEN
Free to shop: new black advertising in South Africa

RUSSELL H. KASCHULA
South Africa's language policy in relation to the OAU's language plan of action for Africa

CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG
Afrikaans and apartheid

SIMON DONNELLY
Southern Tekela Nguni is alive: reintroducing the Phuthi language


Review article

ANDREA DEUMERT
Language planning in South Africa. (Language, Law and Equality,
edited by
K. Prinsloo, Y. Peeters, J. Turi, and C. van Rensburg; Perspektieweop Taalbeplanning vir Suid-Afrika/Perspectives on Language Planning in South Africa, edited by P. H. Swanepoel and H. J. Pieterse; Language in South Africa, edited by V. N. Webb)


Book reviews

BENJAMIN MAGURA
Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics, by Rajend Mesthrie

DUMISANI NTSHANGASE
Communicating Across Cultures in South Africa: Toward a Critical Language Awareness, by Russell Kaschula and Christine Anthonissen

SINFREE MAKONI
Focus on South Africa, by Vivian De Klerk

RAJEND MESTHRIE
Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909-1922, edited by Mohamed Adhikari
Standard and Non-Standard African Language Varieties in the Urban Areas of South Africa, by Karen Calteaux
A New English for a New South Africa? Language Attitudes, Language Planning and Education, by Ute Smit
African Linguistics at the Crossroads: Papers from Kwaluseni, edited by R. K. Herbert



 1999, Issue 137
Language and Politics: Theory and Cases

Edited by Jacob M. Landau


JACOB M. LANDAU
Introduction

RICHARD D. LAMBERT
A scaffolding for language policy

FLORIAN COULMAS
Language masters: defying linguistic materialism

WILLIAM SAFRAN
Politics and language in contemporary France: facing supranational and infranational challenges

AMI AYALON
Language as a barrier to political reform in the Middle East

ERIK JAN ZワRCHER
The vocabulary of Muslim nationalism

BERNARD SPOLSKY and ELANA SHOHAMY
Language In Israeli society and education

CRAIG A. SIRLES
Politics and Arabization: the evolution of postindependence North Africa

SHLOMIT SHRAYBOM SHIVTIEL
Language and political change in modern Egypt

MORDECHAI KEDAR
"Arabness" in the Syrian Media: political messages conveyed by linguistic means

Small languages and small language communities 28

JOHN BATTENBURG
The gradual death of the Berber language in Tunisia

Small languages and small language communities 29

STEPHEN A. WURM
Language revivalism and revitalization in Pacific and Asian areas


Book review

JACOB M. LANDAU
Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives, by Yasir Suleiman


 1999, Issue 138

Pious Voices: Languages among Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Edited by Miriam Isaacs and Lewis Glinert


LEWIS GLINERT
Foreword

MIRIAM ISAACS
Introduction

MIRIAM ISAACS Haredi, haymish and frim: Yiddish vitality and language choice in a transnational, multilingual community

LEWIS H. GLINERT
We never changed our language: attitudes to Yiddish acquisition among Hasidic educators in Britain

JOAN E. ABRAHAM
Perceptions of English learning in a Hasidic Jewish sect

ZELDA KAHAN-NEWMAN
Women's badkhones: the Satmar poem sung to a bride

MIRIAM ISAACS
Contentious partners: Yiddish and Hebrew in Haredi Israel

BRYNA BOGOCH
Gender, literacy, and religiosity: dimensions of Yiddish education in Israeli government-supported schools


Book reviews

AYALA FADER
New World Hasidim: Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America, edited by Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

MARK R. V. SOUTHERN
The Prime of Yiddish, by David Passow

SAM WEISS
Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim M. Weiser



 1999, Issue 139
Estonian Sociolinguistics


TIIT HENNOSTE, LEELO KEEVALLIK, and KARL PAJUSALU
Introduction

RAIMO RAAG
One plus one equals one: the forging of Standard Estonian

ILSE LEHISTE
Successive translations as source of evidence for linguistic change

ANNA VERSCHIK
Some aspects of the multilingualism of Estonian Jews

TRIIN VIHALEMM
Estonian language competence, performance, and beliefs on acquisition among the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Estonia, 1989-1997

KARL PAJUSALU, EVA VELSKER, and ERVIN ORG
On recent changes in South Estonian: dynamics in the formation of the inessive

JワRI VIIKBERG
Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra

LEELO KEEVALLIK
The use and abuse of singular and plural address forms in Estonian


Review article

TIIT HENNOSTE
Valter Tauli: great bystander




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