Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity

by Fishman, Joshua A.

• ISBN13: 9780195124293
• ISBN10: 0195124294
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780199761395
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780195374926
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. This volume is interdisciplinary and the contributors are all distinguished figures in their fields. After each chapter Fishman pulls together the various views that have been expressed and shows how they differ and how they are alike. The volume is useful as a scholarly reference, a resource for the lay reader, and can also be used as a text in ethnicity courses.

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