Oxford University Press

Joshua A. Fishman

Ofelia García

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity.

Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity

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Readings in the Sociology of Language

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

"The First Congress" Phenomenon

The Earliest Stage of Language Planning

Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the dimensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

Reversing Language Shift, Revisited : a 21st Century Perspective

Can Threatened Languages be Saved?

Essays in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman's Sixty-fifth Birthday

The Influence of Language on Culture and Thought

Tope Omoniyi

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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.

Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages

Reversing Language Shift

Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Alexander Erlich

Rachel Erlich

Studies in Jewish languages, literature, and society

For Max Weinreich on His Seventieth Birthday

Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences Joshua A Fishman

This is a selection of Professor Fishman's writings during the past two decades on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, concentrating on six major topics, each of which is prefaced by a specially written introduction.

Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective

David Bradley

Language Endangerment in the Sinosphere

A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters

Never Say Die!

Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism

David Singleton

Larissa Aronin

Muiris Ó Laoire

This volume approaches contemporary multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny. The book addresses the emergent global and local patterns of multingual use and acquisition across the world and explores the major trends that characterize today's multilingualism. It is divided into three parts on the basis of the broad themes: education (including multilingual learning in its general, theoretical aspects), sociolinguistic dimensions and language policy. The book's fifteen chapters, written by renowned international experts, discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations– issues relevant to the challenges faced in different ways by researcher and practitioners alike. All the contributions share a focus on currently operative patterns of interaction between contexts, events and processes.

A New Linguistic Dispensation

Current Multilingualism

Juan Cobarrubias

International Perspectives

Progress in Language Planning

Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests, this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus Planning: The ability to change and grow; Status Planning: The Tshernovits Conference of 1908; Stock-taking: Where are we now? Each section is prefaced by an introduction. In addition there are also five papers written in Yiddish. The work emphasises an empirical and theoretical approach to the growing Ultra-Orthodox sector, that until now, has largely been ignored. Fishman's interest in Yiddish (among other Jewish languages) has previously been difficult to access and it is hoped that the appearance of this book will go some way toward alleviating this situation. The volume also includes a statistical appendix bringing together data on Yiddish for the past 100 years from the Czarist Empire, the USSR, Poland, Israel, the USA, and other parts of the world. This extensive and enlightening study should be of interest to sociolinguists and all those engaged in efforts on behalf of small languages everywhere.

Joshua A. Fishman

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