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.