"Language ideologies" refers to the representation (explicit or implicit) of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. These essays examine definitions and conceptions of language focusing on how such activity organizes individuals, institutions and their interrelationships.

1. Introduction: Language Ideology as a Field of Inquiry ; 2. Ideologies of Honorific Language ; 3. "Today there is no respect": Nostalgia, "respect," and oppositional discourse in Mexicano (Nahuatl) language ideology ; 4. Anger, gender language shift and the politics of Revelation in Papua New Guinean Village ; 5. Arizona Tewa Kiva speech as a manifestation of a dominant language ideology ; 6. The uses and utility of ideology: Some reflections ; 7. Linguistic ideology and praxis in US las school classrooms ; 8. Mediating unity and diversity: the production of language ideologies in Zambian broadcasting ; 9. The role of language in European nationalist ideologies ; 10. Language ideologies in institutions of power: A commentary ; 11. "You're a Liar-you're just like a woman!": Constructing dominant ideologies of language in Warao men's gossip ; 12. Our ideologies and theirs ; 13. Indonesian('s) development: On the state of a language of state ; 14. The "real" Haitian creole; Ideology, metalinguistics, and orthographic choice ; 15. Multiplicity and contention among language ideologies: A Comment

"Those who have followed the discussion of language ideology over the years will find it illuminating to track its shifts. At the same time, readers unfamiliar with the topic...will find this volume sufficiently self-contained to follow."--Anthropological Linguistics "Readers will have much to learn from this rich and carefully edited body of research. Many of the subjects undertaken in this volume-language planning, honorifics, standardization, gossip, and oratory-are familiar to linguistic anthropologists. What these essays add is the ability to link their analyses, in explicit and often nuanced ways, to broader debates in social theory."--Language in Society

Bambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Kathryn A. Woolard teaches at the University of California at San Diego, where she is a Professor of Linguistics. Paul Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles.