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.
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Joshua A. Fishman, a leading sociolinguist, is Distinguished University Research Professor, Social Sciences, Emeritus, at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, New York University, City University of New York Graduate Center and Long Island University. He is the author/editor of 38 books including Reversing Language Shift (Multilingual Matters, 1991) and the General Editor (and founder) of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and of the book series Contributions to the Sociology of Language.
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The recent well-justified alarm that many thousands of languages (a very high proportion indeed of all those now in existence) are dying and that thousands more are destined to die out during the first half of this century, important though it is, is not the immediate issue which this book seeks to address. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reversing language shift, vitality framework, lower governmental services, graded intergenerational disruption scale, lower work sphere, language revitalisation, mother tongue transmission, intergenerational transmission status, civil nationalism, threatened language, compulsory education requirements, ideological clarification, bilingual education programmes, sociolinguistic areas, language maintenance, endangered languages, demographic vitality, sociolinguistic survey, ethnolinguistic vitality, demographic concentration, ethnolinguistic groups, institutional reinforcement, language planners, white impact, replacing language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The recent well-justified alarm that many thousands of languages (a very high proportion indeed of all those now in existence) are dying and that thousands more are destined to die out during the first half of this century, important though it is, is not the immediate issue which this book seeks to address. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reversing language shift, vitality framework, lower governmental services, graded intergenerational disruption scale, lower work sphere, language revitalisation, mother tongue transmission, intergenerational transmission status, civil nationalism, threatened language, compulsory education requirements, ideological clarification, bilingual education programmes, sociolinguistic areas, language maintenance, endangered languages, demographic vitality, sociolinguistic survey, ethnolinguistic vitality, demographic concentration, ethnolinguistic groups, institutional reinforcement, language planners, white impact, replacing language Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Puerto Ricans, United States, Puerto Rico, Basque Country, Multilingual Matters, New Zealand, Navajo Nation, Northern Territory, Cambridge University Press, East Harlem, European Union, North America, Ministry of Education, Big Brother, Fryske Akademy, South America, Quebec Anglophones, Joshua Fishman, Mexico City, African Americans, The Hague, House of Representatives, Tel Aviv, Window Rock New!
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