Chapter 1 Language and Other Myths: ‘Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt’

Chapter 2 Conceptualizing the Ideology of Linguistic Legitimacy: ‘Primitive people have primitive languages and other nonsense’

Chapter 3 African American English, Race and Language: ‘You don’t believe fat meat is greasy’

Chapter 4 Spanglish in the United States: ‘We speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids’

Chapter 5 Sign Language and the DEAF-WORLD: ‘Listening without hearing’

Chapter 6 Yiddish, the Mame-Loshn : ‘Mensch tracht, Gott lacht’

Chapter 7 Created and Constructed Languages: ‘I can speak Esperanto like a native’

Chapter 8 Afrikaans, Language of Oppression to Language of Freedom: ‘Dit is ons erns’

Chapter 9 Why Language Endangerment and Language Death Matter: ‘Took away our native tongue … And taught their English to our young’

Chapter 10 Foreign Language Education in the US: ‘But French isn’t a real class!’