Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective

Author(s)

• Fishman, Joshua A.

Bibliographic Information

Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective

Joshua A. Fishman

（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 45）

Multilingual Matters, c1989

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A selection of Professor Fishman's writings, during the past two decades, on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, this volume concentrates on six major topics: * What is ethnicity and how is it linked to language? * Language maintenance and language shift in ethnocultural perspective * The ethnic dimension in language planning * Language and ethnicity in education: the bilingual minority focus * Elites and rank-and-file: contrasts and contexts * Ethnolinguistic homogeneity and heterogeneity: national and international causes and consequences. Each major topic is prefaced by a specially written introduction, as is the volume as a whole, thereby integrating the material and focusing it on minority group concerns. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism, not only as moral imperatives but as empirical assets, shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction SECTION l. WHAT IS ETHNICITY AND HOW IS IT LINKED TO LANGUAGE? PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. Language, Ethnicity and Racism 2. Language and Ethnicity 3. 'Nothing New under the Sun': A Case Study of Alternatives in Language and Ethnocultural Identity 4. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays Part I. The Nature of Nationalism SECTION 2. LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE SHIFT IN ETHNOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE 5. Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena 6. Language Maintenance and Ethnicity 7. The Societal Basis of the Intergenerational Continuity of Additional Languages 8. The Spread of English as a New Perspective for the Study of 'Language Maintenance and Language Shift' SECTION 3. THE ETHNIC DIMENSION IN LANGUAGE PLANNING 9. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays Part II. The Impact of Nationalism on Language and Language Planning 10. On the Peculiar Problems of Smaller National Languages 11. Modeling Rationales in Corpus Planning: Modernity and Tradition in Images of the Good Corpus 12. Language Spread and Language Policy for Endangered Languages 13. Language Policy in the United States: Past, Present and Future SECTION 4. LANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY IN EDUCATION: THE BILINGUAL MINORITY FOCUS 14. The Sociology of Bilingual Education 15. Philosophies of Bilingual Education in Societal Perspective 16. Ethnic Community Mother Tongue School in the U.S.A.: Dynamics and Distributions 17. Minority Mother Tongues in Education SECTION 5. ELITES AND RANK-AND-FILE: CONTRASTS AND CONTEXTS IN ETHNOLINGUISTIC BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES 18. Puerto Rican Intellectuals in New York: Some lntragroup and Intergroup Contrasts 19. Attracting a Following to High-Culture Functions for a Language of Everyday Life: The Role of the Tshernovits Language Conference in the 'Rise of Yiddish' 20. Ethnic Activists View the Ethnic Revival and its Language Consequences 21. Nathan Birnbaum's View of American Jewry SECTION 6. ETHNOLINGUISTIC HOMOGENEITY AND HETEROGENEITY: WORLDWIDE CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND ASPIRATIONS 22. Whorfianism of the Third Kind: Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Worldwide Societal Asset 23. Utilizing Societal Variables to Predict Whether Countries are Linguistically Homogeneous or Heterogeneous 24. Cross-Polity Perspective on the Importance of Linguistic Heterogeneity as a 'Contributory Factor' in Civil Strife 25. Toward Multilingualism as an International Desideratum in Government, Business and the Professions 26. Bias and Anti-Intellectualism: The Frenzied Fiction of 'English Only' 27. The Rise and Fall of the 'Ethnic Revival' in the U.S.A. Taking Leave: Concluding Sentiments

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Details

• NCID: BA07173598
• ISBN:
  • 1853590061
  • 1853590053
• LCCN: 88010030
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Clevedon, Avon, England ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 717 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P35.F5
  • DC19 : 408.9
  • NDC7 : 361.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Anthropological linguistics
  • LCSH : Linguistic minorities
  • LCSH : Sociolinguistics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0388721X