Preface -- Notes on contributors -- The debate is open -- Locating power: Corsican translators and their critics -- The ideology of dialect in Switzerland -- Language ideological debates in an Olympic city: Barcelona 1992-1996 -- Heated language in a cold climate -- The debate on bilingual education in the U.S.: Language ideology as reflected in the practice of bilingual teachers -- The Ebonics controversy in context: Literacies, subjectivities, and language ideologies in the United States -- Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign: Language ideological debates in the imagining of the nation -- Linguistic and political attitudes towards Israeli Hebrew: Ongoing revival versus normalcy -- Politics, ideology and poetic form: The literary debate in Tanzania -- Portuguese as ideology and politics in Mozambique: Semiotic (re)constructions of a postcolony -- Flemish nationalism in the Belgian Congo versus Zairian anti-imperialism: Continuity and discontinuity in language ideological debates -- The debate is closed -- Name index -- Subject index.