Introduction, John E. Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor; Part 1 Linguistic Ideologies; Chapter 1 Which is to be master? The institutionalization of authority in the science of language, Talbot J. Taylor; Chapter 2 That obscure object of desire: a science of language, Tony Crowley; Chapter 3 Ideologizing Saussure: Bloomfield's and Chomsky's readings of the Cours de linguistique generale, John E. Joseph; Chapter 4 Demythologizing sociolinguistics: why language does not reflect society, Deborah Cameron; Part 2 The Linguistics of Self-Image; Chapter 5 Celso Cittadini and the origin of the vernacular: the convergence of science and subjectivity, Michael T. Ward; Chapter 6 Ideology and the 'clarity' of French, Pierre Swiggers; Chapter 7 The ideological profile of Afrikaans historical linguistics, Paul T. Roberge; Part 3 Political Linguistics; Chapter 8 On freedom of speech, Roy Harris; Chapter 9 What are words worth? Language and ideology in French dictionaries of the revolutionary period, Pieter Desmet, Johan Rooryck, Pierre Swiggers; Chapter 10 'Reducing' Pacific languages to writings, Peter Muhlhausler; Chapter 11 Theory of emergence: towards a historical-materialistic approach to the history of linguistics, Paul Laurendeau;
