This edited volume includes the following chapters: "The Matrix Language Frame Model: Development and Responses" (Carol Myers-Scotton); "Language Alternation: The Third Kind of Codeswitching Mechanism" (Rodolfo Jacobson); "Contrastive Sociolinguistics: Borrowed and Codeswitched Past Participles in Romance-Germanic Language Contact" (Jeanine Treffers-Daller); "Functional Categories and Codeswitching in Japanese/English" (Shoji Azuma); "Linguostatistic Study of Bulgarian in Ukraine" (Ol'ga S. Parfenova); "The Role of Semantic Specificity in Insertional Codeswitching: Evidence from Dutch-Turkish" (Ad Backus); "Oral and Written Assyrian-English Codeswitching" (Erica McClure); "Written Codeswitching: Powerful Bilingual Images" (Cecilia Montes-Alcala); "Talking in Johannesburg: The Negotiation of Identity in Conversation" (Robert K. Herbert); "Codeswitching in the Language of Immigrants: The Case of Franbreu" (Miriam Ben-Rafael); and "Towards a New Understanding of Codeswitching in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Diana-Lee Simon). A subject reference is also included. (Contains 294 references.) (KFT)