Miki Makihara is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNYBambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology, New York University

The idea of language ideology has matured to the point where it can be used to frame research agendas well beyond that of defining and defending the concept itself. Consequences of Contact does a splendid job of demonstrating the promise of this approach, offering insights into social and cultural transformation where multiple languages and language ideologies are in play.

• 1: Miki Makihara and Bambi B. Schieffelin: Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations 2: Christine Jourdan: Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands 3: Miki Makihara: Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse 4: Kathleen C. Riley: To Tangle or Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia 5: Rupert Stasch: Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community 6: Joel Robbins: You Can't Talk Behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a Papua New Guinea Society 7: Bambi B. Schieffelin: Found in Translating: Reflexive Language Across Time and Texts in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea 8: Courtney Handman: Speaking to the Soul: On Native Language and Authority in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation 9: Susan U. Phillips: Changing Scholarly Representations of Tongan Honorific Lexicon 10: J. Joseph Errington: Postscript: Making Contact Between Consequences

Miki Makihara is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNYBambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology, New York University

The idea of language ideology has matured to the point where it can be used to frame research agendas well beyond that of defining and defending the concept itself. Consequences of Contact does a splendid job of demonstrating the promise of this approach, offering insights into social and cultural transformation where multiple languages and language ideologies are in play.

• 1: Miki Makihara and Bambi B. Schieffelin: Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations 2: Christine Jourdan: Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands 3: Miki Makihara: Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse 4: Kathleen C. Riley: To Tangle or Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia 5: Rupert Stasch: Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community 6: Joel Robbins: You Can't Talk Behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a Papua New Guinea Society 7: Bambi B. Schieffelin: Found in Translating: Reflexive Language Across Time and Texts in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea 8: Courtney Handman: Speaking to the Soul: On Native Language and Authority in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation 9: Susan U. Phillips: Changing Scholarly Representations of Tongan Honorific Lexicon 10: J. Joseph Errington: Postscript: Making Contact Between Consequences

Miki Makihara is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNYBambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology, New York University

The idea of language ideology has matured to the point where it can be used to frame research agendas well beyond that of defining and defending the concept itself. Consequences of Contact does a splendid job of demonstrating the promise of this approach, offering insights into social and cultural transformation where multiple languages and language ideologies are in play.

• 1: Miki Makihara and Bambi B. Schieffelin: Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations 2: Christine Jourdan: Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands 3: Miki Makihara: Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse 4: Kathleen C. Riley: To Tangle or Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia 5: Rupert Stasch: Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community 6: Joel Robbins: You Can't Talk Behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a Papua New Guinea Society 7: Bambi B. Schieffelin: Found in Translating: Reflexive Language Across Time and Texts in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea 8: Courtney Handman: Speaking to the Soul: On Native Language and Authority in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation 9: Susan U. Phillips: Changing Scholarly Representations of Tongan Honorific Lexicon 10: J. Joseph Errington: Postscript: Making Contact Between Consequences