Contents: Ranko Bugarski: Language in Yugoslavia: Situation, Policy, Planning; Dubravko Shkiljan: Standard Languages in Yugoslavia; August Kovacec: Languages of National Minorities and Ethnic Groups in Yugoslavia; Melanie Mikes: Languages of National Minorities in Vojvodina; Dalibor Brozovic: The Yugoslav Model of Language Planning: A Confrontation with Other Multilingual Models; Kenneth E. Naylor: The Sociolinguistic Situation in Yugoslavia, with Special Emphasis on Serbo-Croatian; Milorad Radovanovic: Standard Serbo-Croatian and the Theory of Language Planning; Pavle Ivic: Language Planning in Serbia Today; Jozhe Toporisic: The Status of Slovene in Yugoslavia; Olga Misheska Tomic: Standard, Dialect, and Register in Macedonian; Isa Zymberi: Albanian in Yugoslavia; Darko Tanaskovic: The Planning of Turkish as a Minority Language in Yugoslavia; Peter Herrity: The Problematic Nature of the Standardisation of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; George Thomas: Lexical Purism as an Aspect of Language Cultivation in Yugoslavia; Thomas F. Magner: Urban Vernaculars and the Standard Language in Yugoslavia; Dunja Jutronic-Tihomirovic: Standard Language and Dialects in Contact; Damir Kalogjera: Attitudes to Dialects in Language Planning; Sven Gustavsson: Between East, West and South Slavic: Rusyn Language Planning; Map of Yugoslavia; List of Tables and Figures; Index.

"...excellent volume... (MLJ)

"A well-rounded picture of the language situation in former Yugoslavia, based on first-hand accounts from various viewpoints, emerges. ...LPY will remain an important source for those who wish to understand fully the causes of the dissolution of Yugoslavia as well as for sociolinguists concerned more broadly with the complex and often insuperable problems of multilingual states." (SEEJ)

"...will remain an important linguistic as well as historical document. ...a valuable reference... (CSP)