Language Contact and Language Conflict

1. List of contributors; 2. Foreword; 3. Introduction (by Putz, Martin); 4. Part I: Theoretical orientations: The interaction of language and culture; 5. Radical cultural difference: Anthropology's myth? (by Keesing, Roger M.); 6. Culture, cognition, and grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 7. Areal influence on grammaticalization (by Heine, Bernd); 8. "Cultural scripts": A new approach to the study of cross-cultural communication (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 9. Language and cross-cultural communication (by Bamgbose, Ayo); 10. Communication disruptions: On benefits and disadvantages of language contact (by Ehlich, Konrad); 11. Part II: Case studies: The manipulation of language in intercultural contact; 12. European languages in African society and culture: A view on cultural authenticity (by Tengan, Alexis B.); 13. The context of language planning in Africa: An illustration with Nigeria (by Adegbija, Efurosibina); 14. A prognosis for language management in the Third Republic (by Brann, Conrad Max Benedict); 15. Revalorizing the autochthonous languages of Africa (by Webb, Victor); 16. Cultural variation in the interrelation of speech acts and turn-talking (by Clyne, Michael); 17. Intercultural contact and communication in South-East Papua New Guinea (by Dutton, Tom); 18. Towards an independent and ethnically pure Flanders (by Deprez, Kas); 19. Subject index