Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. National or Official Languages -- Linguistic Legislation and Prestige Shift / Willemyns, Roland -- The Role of Pressure Groups in the Change of the Status of French in Québec since 1960 / Labrie, Normand -- Changes in the Status and Function of Quechua / Gleich, Utta von -- Status Types and Status Changes in the Arabic Language / Glass, Dagmar / Reuschel, Wolfgang -- Status Change of Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa / Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine -- Socioeconomic Transitions and Language Status Change: The Case of Luxembourg / Davis, Kathryn A. -- Language Status Shift in the United States: A European Perspective / Bister-Broosen, Helga / Willemyns, Roland -- Hindi Language Planning: A Case Study of Status Change / Dua, Hans R. -- In Search of Status: Bahasa Malaysia for National Unification / Jacobson, Rodolfo -- II. Nonstandard or Standardizing Languages -- The Status of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Predicament / Romaine, Suzanne -- The Changing Status of Melanesian Pidgin English / Mühlhäusler, Peter -- Function and Status Change of Pidgin and Creole Languages / Hellinger, Marlis -- III. Non-Official or Minority Languages -- Three Dilemmas of Organized Efforts to Reverse Language Shift / Fishman, Joshua A. -- The Changing Status of U. S. Spanish: de Facto Second Language? / Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L. -- The Status of a Minority Language in India: A Case Study of Maithili / Boopathy, S. -- Status and Function Changes of Dutch as an Immigrant Language in Australia / Pauwels, Anne -- Problems of Status and Status Change of Yiddish / Biehl, Jürgen -- The Changing Status of English in Switzerland / Dürmüller, Urs -- Evolution et Statut des Variantes Standard et Dialectales de l'Allemand en Alsace / Hartweg, Frédéric -- IV. Varieties of German -- The Status of German as a Language of Science and the Importance of the English Language for German-Speaking Scientists / Skudlik, Sabine -- Recent Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Chemistry / Michels, Stefan -- On the Status and Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Diplomacy / Ammon, Ulrich -- Phases of Language Maintenance and Shift: On the Status of Michigan Franconian / Born, Renate -- Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Status Change: The Case of the Old Order Amish and Related Groups / Raith, Joachim -- V. Special Topics -- Assessing Language Status: Some Problems / Aitchison, Jean -- Der Weg von einem Sprachprojekt zu einer lebenden Welthilfssprache. Einige Aspekte des Statuswandels, dargestellt am Beispiel des Esperanto / Sakaguchi, Alicja -- Deference, Politeness and the Status of Language - A Study in the Variability and Changeability of a Crucial Relationship / Haarmann, Harald -- Sachregister -- Backmatter