Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations -- 2. Linguistic Paths to Urban Self in Postcolonial Solomon Islands -- 3. Linguistic Purism in Rapa Nui Political Discourse -- 4. To Tangle or Not to Tangle: Shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of Charabia in the Marquesas, French Polynesia -- 5. Demon Language: The Otherness of Indonesian in a Papuan Community -- 6. You Can't Talk behind the Holy Spirit's Back: Christianity and Changing Language Ideologies in a Papua New Guinea Society -- 7. Found in Translating: Reflexive Language across Time and Texts in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea -- 8. Speaking to the Soul: On Native Language and Authenticity in Papua New Guinea Bible Translation -- 9. Changing Scholarly Representations of the Tongan Honorific Lexicon -- 10. Postscript: Making Contact between Consequences -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Subject Index -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.