Susan Gal is Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is author of Language Shift (1979) and The Politics of Language (in Hungarian, 2018), as well as co-author with Gail Kligman of Politics of Gender after Socialism (2000) and co-editor with Kathryn Woolard of Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority (2001).
Prologue: questions and exhibits
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Ethnography: 1. Wolof in Senegal
2. German-Hungarians in Hungary
Part II. Semiotics: 3. Ingredients: signs, conjectures, perspectives
4. Comparison: the semiotics of differentiation
5. Dynamics of change in differentiation
Part III. Sites: 6. Situating ideological work
7. Among and between sites
8. Scales and scale-making: connecting sites
Part IV. Pasts: 9. Library to field: ideologies in nineteenth-century linguistic research
Coda: avenues of inquiry.
