Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- Debate is open -- Locating power : Corsican translators and their critics -- Ideology of dialect in Switzerland -- Language ideological debates in an Olympic city : Barcelona 1992-1996 -- Heated language in a cold climate -- Debate on bilingual education in the U.S. : language ideology as reflected in the practice of bilingual teachers -- Ebonics controversy in context : literacies, subjectivities, and language ideologies in the United States -- Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign : language ideological debates in the imagining of the nation -- Linguistic and political attitudes towards Israeli Hebrew : ongoing revival versus normalcy -- Politics, ideology and poetic form : the literacy debate in Tanzania -- Portuguese as ideology and politics in Mozambique : semiotic (re)constructions of a postcolony -- Flemish nationalism in the Belgian Congo versus Zairian anti-imperialism : continuity and discontinuity in language ideological debates -- Debate is closed -- Name index -- Subject index.

« Language Ideological Debates presents analysis of historically situated discursive events - debates - during which ideas about language are formed, articulated, and authoritatively entextualized.» (4th cover)