Peter Rosenberg is Lecturer, Konstanze Jungbluth is Professor and Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes is Postgraduate at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Viadrina European University in Frankfurt/Oder.

Contents: Stefan Rabanus/Haykanush Barseghyan: Language Choice and Identity in Post-Soviet Armenia - Rita Vallentin: Linguistic Strategies of Constructing Durable and Permeable Ethnic Boundaries in a Brazilian Quilombo Community - Bernhard Brehmer: The Cyrillic Script as a Boundary Marker between «Insiders» and «Outsiders»: Metalinguistic Discourse about Script Choices in Slavic-German Bilingual Computer-Mediated Communication - Lia Melikishvili/Natia Jalabadze: Language and Ethnic Boundaries in Multiethnic Georgia - Maria Klessmann: Roma school mediation in Germany - Its Effects and Limitations - Sascha Wölck/Christina Rogers: Labeling difference - On discrimination and the social standing of children fathered by US soldiers during the Vietnam War - Harald Weydt: Linguistic borders - language conflicts. Pleading for recognition of their reality - Peter Rosenberg: Anything goes? The gains and losses of the constructivist view on ethnicity: Some considerations based on German «language islands» studies - Hans C. Boas: Linguistic splits along religious lines: The role of language maintenance among Catholics and Lutherans in Texas - Samantha Litty/Christine Evans/Joseph Salmons: Gray zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification - Konstanze Jungbluth: Crossing the Border, Closing the Gap: Otherness in Language Use - Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes: The permeability of language borders on the example of German-Polish language mixing - Helena Topa Valentim: Boundary, a metalinguistic concept at the core of language deformability.