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International Journal of the Sociology of Language General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman ISSN: 0165-2516 2000, Issue 146 Problems of Multilingualism and Social Change in Asian and African Contexts Issue Editor: Florian Coulmas MINGLANG ZHOU Language attitudes of two contrasting ethnic minority nationalities in China: the "model" Koreans and the "rebellious" Tibetans YULING PAN Code-switching and social change in Guangzhou and Hong Kong SHOJI TAKANO The myth of a homogeneous speech community: a sociolinguistic study of the speech of Japanese women in diverse gender roles VIVIAN DE KLERK Language shift in Grahamstown: a case study of selected Xhosa-speakers ABDUL KARIM BANGURA Measurable effects of societal multilingualism in Africa FRANCIS X. KARAM Investigating mutual intelligibility and language coalescence Book review DIANNE DWYER Conversational Routines in English: Convention and Creativity, by Karin Aijmer For subscription information please contact the publisher: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: ordersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedegruyter.de Journals and titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com