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International Journal of the Sociology of Language General Editor: Joshua A. Fishman ISSN: 0165-2516 1999, Issue 140 Linguistic Symbolism, Political and Individual Edited by Florian Coulmas SUMATHI RAMASWAMY The demoness, the maid, the whore, and the good mother: contesting the national language in India MAHMUD HUSEIN SALIH and YOUSEF T. BADER Personal names of Jordanian Arab Christians: a sociocultural study FAWWAZ AL-ABED AL-HAQ A sociolinguistic study of Hebrew in Jordan: implications for language planning ANNE TUOMINEN Who decides the home language? A look at multilingual families RUSSELL YOUNG and MYLUONG TRAN Language maintenance and shift among Vietnamese in America SAMUEL GYASI OBENG "In future if I buy a dog, I'll call it 'Okyeman-is-ungrateful'." Indirect response to potentially difficult communicative situations: the case of Akan dog names RAJA RAM MEHROTRA Endangered languages in India MARIA JOS� SERRANO Bueno como marcador discursivo de inicio de turno y contraposici�n: estudio socioling��stico Small languages and small language communities 30 Review article LACHMAN M. KHUBCHANDANI Language loyalty in an Islamic state: dilemmas of shifting identities A chronological index of IJSL topical issues An alphabetical index of IJSL topical issues 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