The 13 articles in this serial issue are as follows (with all titles translated into English); "Swiss Sociolinguistics--Sociolinguistics in Switzerland" (Iwar Werlen); "Public Space, Medias, and Identities of Language. Reference Points for an Analysis of the Swiss Imaginary Collective"; (Jean Widmer); "Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Approach to the Question of Languages in Switzerland" (Uli Windisch, Didier Froidevaux); "The Speech Contents of Bilingual Pairs and Families in Freiburg" (Claudine Brohy); "Themes of Swiss Sociolinguistics as Reflected by Public Opinion" (Urs Durmuller); "Multilingualism: Preliminaries from the Results of the Language Data from the 1990 Census" (Rita Franceschini); "English as a Lingua Fanca in Switzerland: Myth or Reality" (Franz Andres; Richard J. Watts); "Some Aspects of the Sociolinguistic Situation in Ticino" (Bruno Moretti, Sandro Bianconi); "Social Networks and Variety Selection in Swiss Emigrant Adaptation. Questions of Method" (Gaetono Berruto, Katja Bluntschli, Tiziana Carraro); "Germanic Switzerland: A Typical Case of Diglossia?" (Jakob Wuest); "On the Development of Consciousness of Language Difference and Attitude towards the Varieties of German in German-Speaking Switzerland" (Annelies Hacki Buhofer, Thomas Studer); "Between Mother Tongue and Foreign Language: High German in Switzerland" (Erika Werlen, Karl Ernst); and "Instrumental Writing in the Everyday Life--Written Communication in the Export Business" (Annelies Hacki Buhofer). (LET)