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Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 144.99A comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. The "ethnic revival" of the 1980s and 90s has caused a substantial change in understanding of this connection, and this book explores the area from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. more...
DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate. The novelty of this volume... more...
European Vernacular Literacy
Channel View Publications 2010; US$ 19.95In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that attended it. Following the story up until the present day, the book examines the people who became leaders of the growth of vernacular literacy in Europe,... more...
Yiddish: Turning to Life
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 224.00Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in... more...
The Earliest Stage of Language Planning
De Gruyter 1993; US$ 126.00The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The "First Congress" Phenomenon (Contributions to the Sociology of Language). more...
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 180.00The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved Joshua A. Fishman, often cited in the literature as... more...
Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, 2
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 98.99Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts, assess their relative successes and failures, and place the cases on a success-failure... more...
The Multilingual Apple
De Gruyter 2001; US$ 56.00This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United... more...
Developing Minority Language Resources
Multilingual Matters 2006; US$ 49.95This book documents ongoing language shift to English among by Latino professionals in California. It then describes current instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high school and university levels to ?heritage? language students who, although educated entirely in English, acquired Spanish at home as a... more...
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