| Sonia Eagle is a professor in the English Department at Kanda University of International Studies (Kanda Gaigo Daigaku), Japan, where, for twelve years, she has taught anthropology and sociolinguistics. Born in Canada, she completed her education at the University of Illinois, Purdue University, Indiana University and the University of Southern California. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from Purdue University and studied Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She has conducted anthropological fieldwork on the Salasaca of Ecuador, the Passamaquoddy of Maine and the Basque of southern California. She spent ten months in Nepal collecting data on language planning and multilingualism. She has published a number of articles on language and culture and one textbook/reader. |
| Feng-fu Tsao is professor of Linguistics at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics and in the Department of Foreign Languages, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. As of August 1, 1999, he is also Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Since obtaining his PhD degree in Linguistics from the University of Southern California in 1977, he has been devoted to teaching and research in the area of grammar, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics at various universities in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States and has published widely both at home and abroad. His publications include six books and some seventy articles. |
| John Birger Winsa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Finnish at Stockholm University. He was born 1955 in Kainulasjrvi, Pajala municipality (i.e. in the northernmost minority region) and has Menkieli/Finnish and Swedish as mother tongues. He studied at Ume, Gteborg and Stockholm universities, has spent time in Finland and has worked for a year in Ottawa, Canada, as a visiting researcher at Carleton University (1993/94). He is active in minority policy development within the European Union and is a member of the Swedish committee of the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages. He has published some 20 articles on dialectology, sociology of language, inter-lingual marriages, cultural borders, bilingual communities, minority languages and groups, language policies and the socioeconomics of bilingualism. His books include: TheOldestVocabularyinTornedalenFinnish, the GllivareFinnishDictionary and LanguageAttitudesandSocialIdentity (Canberra: ALAA). Dr Winsa is currently working on a long-term project that aims to map the relationships between language policy and cultural and socio-economic development in bilingual regions; in 2000 he begins a study of the social characteristics of active writers in small bilingual communities. |
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