Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Hague : Mouton
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This is a study of the self-maintenance efforts, rationales, and accomplishments of non-English speaking immigrants on American shores. It is not a study of the assimilation of American immigrants and of the resultant formation of the supra-ethnic American nation. The two processes--de-ethnization and Americanization, opposite cultural-linguistic self-maintenance--are equally ubiquitous throughout all of American history. As a nation we have paid infinitely more attention to the Americanization process than to the self-maintenance process. This study represents an all too preliminary attempt to redress this imbalance in attention. At the present time, non-English language skills are recognized as scarce and vital commodities in the conduct of our nation's international relations. Is it possible that we have appreciable but as yet unrecognized resources of these scarce commodities? This is an attempt to explore the current extent and status of culture and language maintenance efforts. Varying approaches, topics, and levels of collaboration and cross-fertilization were encouraged. It is hoped that the report produced leaves the field of inquiry somewhat more organized than when this effort began.
Language Loyalty in the United States
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Hague : Mouton
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This is a study of the self-maintenance efforts, rationales, and accomplishments of non-English speaking immigrants on American shores. It is not a study of the assimilation of American immigrants and of the resultant formation of the supra-ethnic American nation. The two processes--de-ethnization and Americanization, opposite cultural-linguistic self-maintenance--are equally ubiquitous throughout all of American history. As a nation we have paid infinitely more attention to the Americanization process than to the self-maintenance process. This study represents an all too preliminary attempt to redress this imbalance in attention. At the present time, non-English language skills are recognized as scarce and vital commodities in the conduct of our nation's international relations. Is it possible that we have appreciable but as yet unrecognized resources of these scarce commodities? This is an attempt to explore the current extent and status of culture and language maintenance efforts. Varying approaches, topics, and levels of collaboration and cross-fertilization were encouraged. It is hoped that the report produced leaves the field of inquiry somewhat more organized than when this effort began.
Publisher: Hague : Mouton
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This is a study of the self-maintenance efforts, rationales, and accomplishments of non-English speaking immigrants on American shores. It is not a study of the assimilation of American immigrants and of the resultant formation of the supra-ethnic American nation. The two processes--de-ethnization and Americanization, opposite cultural-linguistic self-maintenance--are equally ubiquitous throughout all of American history. As a nation we have paid infinitely more attention to the Americanization process than to the self-maintenance process. This study represents an all too preliminary attempt to redress this imbalance in attention. At the present time, non-English language skills are recognized as scarce and vital commodities in the conduct of our nation's international relations. Is it possible that we have appreciable but as yet unrecognized resources of these scarce commodities? This is an attempt to explore the current extent and status of culture and language maintenance efforts. Varying approaches, topics, and levels of collaboration and cross-fertilization were encouraged. It is hoped that the report produced leaves the field of inquiry somewhat more organized than when this effort began.
Language Loyalty in the United States
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780405110788
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780405110788
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Future of Spanish in the United States
Author: José Antonio Alonso
Publisher: Fundación Telefónica
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
U.S. leadership will be a strong factor in the persistence of Spanish in its midst as a living language will be a powerful factor in the strengthening of the language on the international stage. In this volume, a number of specialists, all professors of Latino origins currently working in U.S. universities, analyze a variety of factors, from different perspectives, that play a role in the present and future vitality of Spanish as a second language in the U.S. The result is a rich and complex work surrounding a crucial issue that will influence the future of Spanish as an international language.
Publisher: Fundación Telefónica
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
U.S. leadership will be a strong factor in the persistence of Spanish in its midst as a living language will be a powerful factor in the strengthening of the language on the international stage. In this volume, a number of specialists, all professors of Latino origins currently working in U.S. universities, analyze a variety of factors, from different perspectives, that play a role in the present and future vitality of Spanish as a second language in the U.S. The result is a rich and complex work surrounding a crucial issue that will influence the future of Spanish as an international language.
Spanish across Domains in the United States
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004433236
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This edited volume focuses on Spanish use in education, public spaces, and social media in five macro-regions of the United States: the Southwest, the West, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the Southeast.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004433236
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This edited volume focuses on Spanish use in education, public spaces, and social media in five macro-regions of the United States: the Southwest, the West, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the Southeast.
Language Diversity in the USA
Author: Kim Potowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491261
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491261
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education.
Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change
Author: Rakhmiel Peltz
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1853599026
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1853599026
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.
Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111684377
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111684377
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization
Author: Nancy H. Hornberger
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 185359900X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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 writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 185359900X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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 writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics.
The Center Forum
Language Maintenance and Shift
Author: Anne Pauwels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043697
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043697
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.