Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity

by Fishman, Joshua A.

• ISBN13: 9780195124286
• ISBN10: 0195124286
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connectionbetween language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twentyyears, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in ourunderstanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of ouridentity. The distinguished sociolinguist Joshua Fishman has commissioned over25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. The volume isdivided into two sections, the first examining disciplinary perspectives on thesuject; the second uses the prism of geography, looking at the subject in thecontext of Africa, Scandinavia, Germany and the rest of Western Europe, NorthAmerica and elsewhere. The volume is truly interdisciplinary and thecontributors are all distinguished figures in their fields. Each chapter isfollowed by thought provoking questions and essential bibliography, and Fishmanpulls together the various views that have been expressed and shows how theydiffer and how they are alike.The volume is useful as a scholarly reference, aresource for the lay reader, and can also be used as a text in ethnicitycourses.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction	3	(6)
Joshua A. Fishman
Part I Discipline & Topic Perspectives
Economics	9	(16)
Francois Grin
Linguistic and Ethnographic Fieldwork	25	(17)
Nancy C. Dorian
Education of Minorities	42	(18)
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
History	60	(17)
Harald Haarmann
Nationalism	77	(17)
William Safran
Political Science	94	(15)
Robert Phillipson
Psychology	109	(13)
Amado Padilla
Sign Language and the Deaf Community	122	(18)
Colin Baker
Social Psychology	140	(12)
Karmela Liebkind
Sociolinguistics	152	(12)
Joshua A. Fishman
Sociology	164	(17)
Glyn Williams
Second-Language Learning	181	(16)
Bernard Spolsky
Part II Region & Language Perspectives
Americas
Amerindians	197	(14)
Teresa L. McCarty
Ofelia Zepeda
African American Vernacular English	211	(15)
Sonja L. Lanehart
Latin America	226	(18)
Ofelia Garcia
The United States and Canada	244	(23)
Richard Y. Bourhis
David F. Marshall
Europe
The Celtic World	267	(19)
Colin H. Williams
Germany	286	(14)
James R. Dow
Scandinavia	300	(19)
Leena Huss
Anna-Riitta Lindgren
The Slavic World	319	(15)
Miroslav Hroch
Western Europe	334	(19)
Andree Tabouret-Keller
Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa	353	(16)
Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Efurosibina Adegbija
Afro-Asian Rural Border Areas	369	(13)
Tope Omoniyi
The Arab World (Maghreb and Near East)	382	(17)
Moha Ennaji
Asia & The Pacific
The Far East	399	(15)
Florian Coulmas
The Pacific	414	(17)
Heather Lotherington
South and Southeast Asia	431	(13)
Harold F. Schiffman
Concluding Comments	444	(11)
Joshua A. Fishman
Index	455