This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters.Introduction: Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism,Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele and Alex HousenI Theoretical frameworks "Holy languages" in the context of societal bilingualism,Joshua FishmanForlorn hope?John EdwardsWhen languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure?Tove Skutnabb-KangasCore values and nation statesJ.J. SmoliczII Bilingualism worldwideFrench language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme or economic determinism?Harold SchiffmanThe non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundariesPeter Nelde and Peter WeberLanguage shift among Siberian EstoniansJuri Viikberg,On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and other changing statusDamir KalogjeraEthnolects - between bilingualism and urban dialectWolfgang WoelckThe development of Navajo-English language bilingualismBernard SpolskyLanguage ideology, ownership and maintenance: The discourse of the "Academia Mayor de la Lengua uechua"Tim MarrXhosa as a "home appliance"? A case of language shift in GrahamstownVivian de KlerkJapan's nascent multilingualismFlorian Coulmas and Makoto WatanabeIII. Multilingual management and educationManaging multilingualism in SingaporeXu Daming and Li WeiManaging languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environmentBjoern H. JernuddCodaChanging paradigms in the study of bilingualismWilliam MackeyIndexTo order, please contactSFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage GmbHPostfach 434372774 ReutlingenFax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33E-mail: deGruyter@s-f-g.comFor USA, Canada and Mexico:Walter de Gruyter, Inc.200 Saw Mill River RoadHawthorne, NY 10532, USAFax: +1 (914) 747-1326E-mail: cs@degruyterny.comPlease visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.degruyter.com