Contents -- The Contributors -- Foreword Intervening Discourses, Representations and Conceptualizations of Language -- Chapter 1 Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages -- Chapter 2 Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many -- Chapter 3 Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus? -- Chapter 4 The Myth of English as an International Language -- Chapter 5 Beyond 'Language': Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology -- Chapter 6 Entering a Culture Quietly: Writing and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Education in Brazil -- Chapter 7 A Linguistics of Communicative Activity -- Chapter 8 (Dis)inventing Discourse: Examples from Black Culture and Hiphop Rap/Discourse -- Chapter 9 Educational Materials Reflecting Heteroglossia: Disinventing Ethnolinguistic Differences in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Chapter 10 After Disinvention: Possibilities for Communication, Community and Competence -- Index.