Reversing Language Shift

Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-1-85359-121-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 628 g

This superbly organised presentation consists of four introductory theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, six chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and four concluding chapters that both restate the underlying theory as well as apply it more broadly, beyond the mother tongue transmission nexus, to second language for which intergenerational continuity is pursued precisely as second languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fishman, Joshua A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Preface

LANGUAGE SHIFT AND REVERSING LANGUAGE SHIFT: INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS

1. What This Book as About and Why lt is Needed

2. Why Try to Reverse Language Shift and Is It Really Possible To Do So?

3. ‘Where' and 'Why' Does Language Shift Occur and How Can It Be Reversed? Locating Language Shift in Social Space and in Societal Dynamics

4. How Threatened is 'Threatened'? A Typology of Disadvantaged Languages and Ameliorative Priorities

CASE STUDIES: A BAKER’S DOZEN FROM SEVERAL CONTINENTS

5. Irish: What More Can Be Done?

6. The Cases of Basque and Frisian

7. Four American Examples: Navajo, Spanish and Yiddish (Secular and Ultra·Orthodox)

8. Maori: The Native Language of New Zealand

9. Prospects for Reversing Language Shift in Australia: Evidence from its Aboriginal and Immigrant Languages

10. Three Success Stories (More or Less): Modern Hebrew, French in Quebec and Catalan in Spain

RELATED ISSUES AND RECAPITULATION

11. On RLS-Focused Language Planning and on Dialect-Standard Issues and Corpus Planning in Particular

12. The lntergenerational Transmission of 'Additional' Languages for Special Purposes

13. Limitations on School Effectiveness in Connection with Mother Tongue Transmission

14. Theoretical Recapitulation: What is Reversing Language Shift (RLS) and How Can It Succeed?

Über Autor(innen)

Fishman, Joshua A.
Joshua A. Fishman is retired Emeritus Distinguished University Research Professor (Yeshiva University and Stanford University) and a frequent award recipient, lecturer, and publisher. He is also the co-founder of the field of sociolinguistics and founding editor of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language.