Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman

by Hornberger, Nancy H.; Putz, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781853599002
• ISBN10: 185359900X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume brings together a selection of his recent writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue with the editors in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work

Author Biography

Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She investigates, teaches, lectures, and consults on multilingual language and education policy and practice worldwide, combining methods and perspectives from anthropology and sociolinguistics. Her special focus is indigenous and immigrant heritage language education, grounded in her comparative ethnographic research in the South American Andes and urban Philadelphia (USA). Her most recent book is Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research, and Practice in Multilingual Settings (Multilingual Matters, 2003) and she is General Editor for the forthcoming 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer).Martin Pütz is Full Professor of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (Campus Landau) where he regularly organises linguistic conferences (International LAUD Symposia). His research interests include sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and foreign language teaching/learning. He has done extensive fieldwork in Great Britain, Namibia and Australia on a variety of topics such as intercultural communication, codeswitching, pidgins/creoles, language policy and educational language planning. His recent book publication includes ‘Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment through Language (with co-editors Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff – van Aertselaer).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Foreword
Colin Baker	xi
Introduction
Nancy H. Hornberger and Martin Pütz	xii
An Interview with Joshua A. Fishman	1	(28)
Part 1: Personal Perspectives on Sociolinguistics
1. My Life Through My Work; My Work Through My Life	29	(19)
In K. Koerner (ed.) (1991) First Person Singular, Vol. 2: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences (pp. 105-124). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2. Bloomington, Summer 1964: The Birth of American Sociolinguistics	48	(9)
In C. Bratt-Paulston and G.R. Tucker (eds) (1997) The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections (pp. 87-95). Dallas, TX: The Summer Institute of Linguistics.
3. Putting the 'Socio' Back into the Sociolinguistic Enterprise	57	(12)
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 92,127-138 (1991). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.
4. Diglossia and Societal Multilingualism: Dimensions of Similarity and Difference	69	(10)
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 157,93-100 (2002). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.
Part 2: Loyalty, Shift and Revitalization
5. What is Reversing Language Shift (RLS) and How Can It Succeed?	79	(34)
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 11,5-36 (1990). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
6. Reversing Language Shift: Successes, Failures, Doubts and Dilemmas	113	(13)
In E. Jahr (ed.) (1993) Language Conflict and Language Planning (pp. 69-81). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
7. Language Revitalization	126	(7)
H. Goebel, P.H. Nelde, Z. Stary and W. Wölck (eds) (1996) Kontaktlinguistik/Contact Linguistics/Linguistique de Contact, Vol. 1 (pp. 902-906). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
8. Good Conferences in a Wicked World: On Some Worrisom Problems in the Study of Language Maintenance and Language Shift	133	(7)
In W. Fase, K. Jaspaert and S. Kroon (eds) (1995) The State of Minority Languages: International Perspectives on Survival and Decline (pp. 311-317). Exton, PA: Swets and Zeitlinger.
9. Prospects for Reversing Language Shift (RLS) in Australia: Evidence from Aboriginal and Immigrant Languages	140
In J. A. Fishman (1991) Reversing Language Shift (pp. 252-286). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Part 3: Globalization, Power and the Status of Threatened Languages
10. 'English Only': Its Ghosts, Myths and Dangers	179	(16)
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 74,125-140 (1988). The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.
11. On the Limits of Ethnolinguistic Democracy	195	(13)
In T. Skutnabb-Kangas and R. Phillipson (eds) (1995) Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination (pp. 49-61). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
12. Language Spread and Language Policy for Endangered Languages	208	(13)
In (1987) Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (pp. 1-15). Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.
13. 'Business as Usual' for Threatened Languages (On Planning Economic Efforts for the Greater Benefit of Reversing Language Shift, or 'Keeping your Eyes on the Ball')	221	(12)
He Pukenga Korero: A Journal of Maori Studies 5 (2), 16-20 (2000). University of Massey, NZ: School of Maori Studies.
Part 4: Yiddish Language and Culture
14. The Holiness of Yiddish: Who Says Yiddish is Holy and Why?	233	(18)
Language Policy 1,123-141 (2002). Berlin: Springer/Kluwer Academic.
15. 'Holy Languages' in the Context of Societal Bilingualism	251
In L. Wei, J. Dewaele and A. Houston (eds) (2002) Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism (pp. 15-24). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,