{"product_id":"language-and-ethnicity-in-minority-sociolinguistic-perspective-9781853590054","title":"Language and Ethnicity in Minority","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of Professor Fishman's writings, during the past two decades, on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, this volume concentrates on six major topics: \u003cbr\u003e • What is ethnicity and how is it linked to language? \u003cbr\u003e • Language maintenance and language shift in ethnocultural perspective \u003cbr\u003e • The ethnic dimension in language planning \u003cbr\u003e • Language and ethnicity in education: the bilingual minority focus \u003cbr\u003e • Elites and rank-and-file: contrasts and contexts \u003cbr\u003e • Ethnolinguistic homogeneity and heterogeneity: national and international causes and consequences. \u003cbr\u003e Each major topic is prefaced by a specially written introduction, as is the volume as a whole, thereby integrating the material and focusing it on minority group concerns. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism, not only as moral imperatives but as empirical assets, shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e SECTION l. WHAT IS ETHNICITY AND HOW IS IT LINKED TO LANGUAGE? PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND\u003cbr\u003e SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS\u003cbr\u003e 1. Language, Ethnicity and Racism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Language and Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Nothing New under the Sun': A Case Study of Alternatives in Language and Ethnocultural Identity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Nature of Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e SECTION 2. LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE SHIFT IN ETHNOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena\u003cbr\u003e 6. Language Maintenance and Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Societal Basis of the Intergenerational Continuity of Additional Languages\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Spread of English as a New Perspective for the Study of 'Language Maintenance and Language Shift'\u003cbr\u003e SECTION 3. THE ETHNIC DIMENSION IN LANGUAGE PLANNING\u003cbr\u003e 9. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Impact of Nationalism on Language and Language Planning\u003cbr\u003e 10. On the Peculiar Problems of Smaller National Languages\u003cbr\u003e 11. Modeling Rationales in Corpus Planning: Modernity and Tradition in Images of the Good Corpus\u003cbr\u003e 12. Language Spread and Language Policy for Endangered Languages\u003cbr\u003e 13. Language Policy in the United States: Past, Present and Future\u003cbr\u003e SECTION 4. LANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY IN EDUCATION: THE BILINGUAL MINORITY FOCUS\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Sociology of Bilingual Education\u003cbr\u003e 15. Philosophies of Bilingual Education in Societal Perspective\u003cbr\u003e 16. Ethnic Community Mother Tongue School in the U.S.A.: Dynamics and Distributions\u003cbr\u003e 17. Minority Mother Tongues in Education\u003cbr\u003e SECTION 5. ELITES AND RANK-AND-FILE: CONTRASTS AND CONTEXTS IN ETHNOLINGUISTIC BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES\u003cbr\u003e 18. Puerto Rican Intellectuals in New York: Some lntragroup and Intergroup Contrasts\u003cbr\u003e 19. Attracting a Following to High-Culture Functions for a Language of Everyday Life: The Role of the Tshernovits Language Conference in the 'Rise of Yiddish'\u003cbr\u003e 20. Ethnic Activists View the Ethnic Revival and its Language Consequences\u003cbr\u003e 21. Nathan Birnbaum's View of American Jewry\u003cbr\u003e SECTION 6. ETHNOLINGUISTIC HOMOGENEITY AND HETEROGENEITY: WORLDWIDE CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND ASPIRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e 22. Whorfianism of the Third Kind: Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Worldwide Societal Asset\u003cbr\u003e 23. Utilizing Societal Variables to Predict Whether Countries are Linguistically Homogeneous or Heterogeneous\u003cbr\u003e 24. Cross-Polity Perspective on the Importance of Linguistic Heterogeneity as a 'Contributory Factor' in Civil Strife\u003cbr\u003e 25. Toward Multilingualism as an International Desideratum in Government, Business and the Professions\u003cbr\u003e 26. Bias and Anti-Intellectualism: The Frenzied Fiction of 'English Only'\u003cbr\u003e 27. The Rise and Fall of the 'Ethnic Revival' in the U.S.A.\u003cbr\u003e Taking Leave: Concluding Sentiments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel View Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043050094935,"sku":"9781853590054","price":28.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781853590054.jpg?v=1750956802","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/language-and-ethnicity-in-minority-sociolinguistic-perspective-9781853590054","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}