Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective / Fishman, Joshua A. -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish / Otheguy, Ricardo -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the U.S.-Mexico border: A two-generation study / Hidalgo, Margarita -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Gutiérrez, Manuel J. / Silva-Corvalán, Carmen -- Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: A 1988 update / Pearson, Barbara Zurer / McGee, Arlene -- Literacy stories: Features of unplanned oral discourse / Cisneros, René / Leone,