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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Issue 128 (1997) Issues in Language Contact and Social Power Relations Edited by Florian Coulmas Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Frances Trix .............. Alphabet conflict in the Balkans: Albanian and the Congress of Monastir Didier L. Goyvaerts ....... Power, ethnicity, and the remarkable rise of Lingala in Bukavu, eastern Zaire Bahram Sohrabi ............ Ethnolinguistic vitality and patterns of communication among the second generation of Iranian immigrants in Sweden David Guyot ............... Plurilinguisme et metissage: le cas des metis du Togo Book review Sonia Branca-Rosoff ....... Construire le sens, by Josiane Boutet _______________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Issue 129 (1998) Women's Languages in Various Parts of the World Edited by Sachiko Ide and Beverly Hill Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Sachiko Ide and Beverly Hill . Preface: seeking the parameters Part 1. Gender patterns in language use Jenny Cheshire and Penelope Gardner-Chloros ..... Code-switching and the sociolinguistic gender pattern Iris E.W.M. Bogaers .......... Gender in job interviews: some implications of verbal interactions of women and men Part 2. Gender differences in less-described languages Mira Ariel and Rachel Giora .. A self versus other point of view in language: redefining femininity and masculinity Onuigbo G. Nwoye ............. Linguistic gender difference in Igbo Elizabeth Keating ............ A woman's role in constructing status hierarchies: using honorific language in Pohnpei, Micronesia Tooru Hayasi ................. Gender differences in modern Turkish discourse Part 3. Women's languages in women's world Liming Zhao .................. Nushu: Chinese women's characters Risako Ide and Tomomi Terada . The historical origins of Japanese women's speech: from the secluded worlds of "court ladies" and "play ladies" Ruth Mukama .................. Women's discourses as the conservators of cultural values in language Review article Jennifer Coates .............. Plus ca change...: language and gender in Japan. Review of ASPECTS OF JAPANESE WOMEN'S LANGUAGE, edited by Sachiko Ide and Naomi McGloin _______________________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Issue 130 (1998) Linguistic Issues of Southeast Asia Edited by Asmah Haji Omar Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York Asmah Haji Omar ........... Introduction Peter W. Martin ........... A sociolinguistic perspective on Brunei Cesar A. Hidalgo .......... Language choice in a multilingual society: the case of the Philippines Soenjono Dardjowidjojo .... Strategies for a successful national language policy: the Indonesian case Asmah Haji Omar ........... Language planning and image building: the case of Malay in Malaysia Maya Khemlani-David ....... Language shift, cultural maintenance, and ethnic identity; a study of a minority community: the Sindhis of Malaysia Hafriza Burhanudeen ....... Greetings among royalty in Malaysia Elaine Morais ............. Language choice in a Malaysian car-assembly plant Jamaliah Mohd. Ali ........ Strategic communication and linguistic choices in a Malaysian student seminar J.A. Foley ................ Code-switching and learning among young children in Singapore Book review Thilagawathi Kanagaretnam . RULES OF SPEAKING: VERBAL INTERACTIONS AT PLAY, edited by Zainab Abdul Majid and Loga Mahesan Baskaran _______________________________________________________________________ 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.com