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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Issue 124 (1997) THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SLOVENE Edited by Marc L. Greenberg Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Marc L. Greenberg ............ Introduction Joze Toporisic ............... Slovene as the language of an independent state James W. Tollefson ........... Language policy in independent Slovenia Majda Kaucic-Basa ............ Where do Slovenes speak Slovene and to whom? Minority language choice in a transactional setting Tom Priestly ................. On the development of the WINDISCHENTHEORIE Albina Necak-Luek ............ Slovene language issues in the Slovene-Hungarian borderland Nada Sabec ................... Slovene-English language contact in the USA Review article Joseph Paternost ............ Recent sociolinguistic struggles for language sovereignty among the Slovenes Book review ______________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Issue 125 (1997) SOCIOLINGUISTIC ISSUES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Edited by Mohamed H. Abdulaziz Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Mohamed H. Abdulaziz .... Introduction Efurosibina Adegbija .... The identity, survival, and promotion of minority languages in Nigeria David J. Fourie ......... Educational language policy and the indigenous languages of Namibia Mohamed H. Abdulaziz and Ken Osinde .......... Sheng and Engsh: development of mixed codes among the urban youth in Kenya Rosalie Finlayson and Sarah Slabbert .......... `We just mix': code switching in a South African township B. G. V. Nyombe ......... Survival or extinction: the fate of the local languages of the Southern Sudan D. O. Okombo and P. O. Akach ............. Language convergence and wave phenomena in the growth of a national sign language in Kenia Book reviews ________________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Issue 126 (1997) ASPECTS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN GREECE Edited by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle and Maggie Ronkin Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, and Maggie Ronkin ........... Preface Christina Kakava ............ Sociolinguistics and Modern Greek: past, current, and future directions Effie Papatzikou Cochran .... An instance of triglossia? Codeswitching as evidence for the present state of Greece's `language question' Anna Frangoudaki ............ The metalinguistic prophecy on the decline of the Greek language: its social function as the expression of a crisis in Greek national identity Eleni Sella-Mazi ............ Language contact today: the case of the Muslim minority in northeastern Greece Lukas D. Tsitsipis .......... The construction of an `outsider's' voice by low-proficiency speakers of an Albanian variety (Arvanitika) in Greece: language and ideology Marianthi Makri-Tsilipakou .. Gendered panhandling? Theodossia Pavlidou ......... The last five turns: preliminary remarks on closings in Greek and German telephone calls Maria Sifianou .............. Politeness and off-record indirectness Book review ___________________________________________________________________ Mouton de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Postfach 30 34 21 200 Saw Mill River Road D-10728 Berlin Hawthorne, NY 10532 Germany USA Fax: +49 (0)30 26005-351 Fax: +1 914 747-1326 email: moutonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedeGruyter.de Publications by de Gruyter can also be ordered via World Wide Web: http://www.deGruyter.de