Reversing Language Shift : Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages : 76 (Multilingual Matters)

Fishman, Joshua A.

ISBN 10: 1853591211 / ISBN 13: 9781853591211

Published by Multilingual Matters, 1997

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Pbk, xiii 431 p. A clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Content : Language shift and reversing language shift -- 1. What this book is about -- 2. Why try to reverse language shift and is it possible to do so? -- 3. Where and why does language shift occur an how can it be reversed? -- 4. How threatened is threatened -- Case studies -- 5. Irish -- 6. the cases of Basque and Frisian -- 7. Four American examples: Navajo, Spanish and Yiddish -- 8 Maori -- 9. Prospects for reversing language shift in Australia -- 10. Three success stories: Modern Hebrew, French in Quebec and Catalan in Spain. -- Related issues -- 11. On RLS-focused language planning and on dialect-standard issues -- 12. The intergenerational transmission of additional languages for special purposes -- 13. Limitations on school effectiveness in connection with mother tongue transmission -- 14. Theoretical recapitulation. [Code switching (Linguistics) - Linguistic minorities - Language planning - Philology & Linguistics] s105 / m14610.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reversing Language Shift : Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages : 76 (Multilingual Matters)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853591211
• ISBN 13: 9781853591211
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

This superbly organised presentation consists of four introductory theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, six chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and four concluding chapters that both restate the underlying theory as well as apply it more broadly, beyond the mother tongue transmission nexus, to second language for which intergenerational continuity is pursued precisely as second languages.

About the Author

Joshua A. Fishman is retired Emeritus Distinguished University Research Professor (Yeshiva University and Stanford University) and a frequent award recipient, lecturer, and publisher. He is also the co-founder of the field of sociolinguistics and founding editor of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language.