Demographic and Socioeconomic Basis of Ethnolinguistics

Preface and Acknowledgments: Part I. INTRODUCTION: GENERAL SOURCES AND METHODS, AND CONCEPTS OF POPULATION, LANGUAGE, AND ETHNICITY.- 1. Basic Concepts, and Overview of Sources, Quality of Data, and Methods.- 2. The Language of Demography and Sociolinguistics.- 3. Ethnicity, and Language as an Ethnic Identifier.- Part II. UNITED STATES EXPERIENCE.- 4. Language Inquiries in U.S. Censuses, National Sample Surveys, and Other Collection Instruments.- 5. Measurement of Language Use and Language Proficiency, and Literacy and Its Analysis.- 6. Language as a Factor in the Quality of Demographic Data and Translation Issues in the Management of Surveys.- 7. Sociolinguistic Characteristics of the Population of the United States.- Part III. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE.- 8. International Demographic Situation and its Linguistic Associations.- 9. Ethnolinguistic Communities, Ethnolinguistic Conflict, and Other Conflict Situations.- Part IV. DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCE3S IN LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOR AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES APPLIED TO LANGUAGES.- 10. Demographic and Socioeconomic Differences in Linguistic Behavior.- 11. Demographic Processes Applied to Languages and Language-Defined Populations.- 12. Migration and Language Change.- 13. Prospective Changes in National Populations and Language-Defined Populations, and Projections Methods.- V. SPECIAL LANGUAGE GROUPS.- 14. Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Persons with Language-Use Limitations; and Special Languages.- 15. Some Sociolinguistic Characteristics of Premodern Societies and Modern Indigenous Societies.- Part VI. Some policy and practical applications.- 16. Limited Language Proficiency and its Consequences.- 17.  Linguistic Proficiency and Acculturation: Role of Family, Neighborhood, and Metropolitan Area.- 18 Language and U.S. Public Policy.- Glossary.- Subject Index.

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