A collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift, and cultural aspects of "language minorities".

1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Pennsylvania German: "Do they love it in their hearts?" (by Huffines, Marion Lois); 4. Linguistic Markers of Anabaptist Ethnicity through Four Centuries (by Enninger, Werner); 5. Linkages of Language and Ethnic Identity: Changes in Barcelona, 1980-1987 (by Woolard, Kathryn A.); 6. Language and Ethnicity: The Case of Rosalia de Castro (by Courteau, Joanna); 7. Making Ethnicity Salient in Codeswitching (by Myers-Scotton, Carol); 8. Cebuano and Tagalog: Ethnic Rivalry Redivivus (by Gonzalez, Fsc, Andrew); 9. The Emergence of Language Minorities in the United States (by Lopez, David E.); 10. Theory and Method in the Study of Language Shift (by Veltman, Calvin J.); 11. A So-Called Dialect of English (by Kaye, Alan S.); 12. Ethnic Identity and Aging: Children of Jewish Immigrants Return to Their First Language (by Peltz, Rakhmiel); 13. W(h)ither Ethnic Languages and Bilingual Education in the US? Crisis & the Struggle between Hegemony & Humanism (by Kjolseth, Rolf); 14. References; 15. Contributors; 16. Index