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Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts


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Like 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 continuum. The reasons for these failures and successes and the linguistic, social, and political contexts involved are subtle and highly complex. Some of these factors have to do with whether the language is considered a dialect, as in the cases of Bavarian, Ebonics, and Scots (considered to be dialects of German, American English, and British English, respectively). Other factors have to do with government policy, as in the cases of Basque and Navajo. Still other factors are historical, such as the way Canaanite was supplanted in present-day Israel by another classical language-Hebrew.Although the volume offers considerable sophistication in the treatment of language, ethnicity and identity, it has been written for the non-specialized reader, whether student or layperson. The contributors are an international group of well-known scholars in a range of fields. Fishman and García provide a detailed introduction that addresses the difficulty of assessing the success or failure of a language. They also present a conclusion that integrates the data presented in the volume.

Table of Contents:
Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia Garcia: Foreward 1: Joshua A. Fishman: Examining Contrarianism: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic-Identity Efforts 2: Neville Alexander: Afrikaans: Success or Failure? 3: Peter Unseth: Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization 4: Fatima Sadiqi: The Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco 5: Moja Ennaji: The Promotion of Moroccan Arabic: Successes and Failures 6: Mohamed Daoud: The Survival of French in Tunisian Identity 7: Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Hebrew Revivalists' Goals vis a vis the Emerging Israeli Language 8: Django Paris and Arnetha F. Ball: African American language in U.S. Education and Society: A Story of Success and Failure 9: Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth and Timothy John Ebsworth: Learning English in Puerto Rico: An Approach-Avoidance Conflict? 10: David F. Marshall: The Reforming of English Spelling 11: Serafín M. Coronel-Molina: Quechua Language Policy and Planning in Peru 12: Aurolyn Luykx: Paradoxes of Quechua Language Revitalization in Bolivia: Back and forth Along the Success-Failure Continuum 13: Robert B. Kaplan and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.: North Korea's Language Revision and Some Unforeseen Consequences 14: Shouhui Zhao and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.: Simplifying Chinese Characters: Not a Simple Matter 15: David Bradley: Problems of Orthography Development for the Yi in China 16: M. Obaidul Hamid: Planning for Failure: English and Language Policy and Planning in Bangladesh 17: Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew: The Emergence, Role, and Future of the Malay in Singapore 18: Mahdav M. Deshpande: Efforts to Vernacularize Sanskrit: Degree of Success and Failure 19: E. Annamalai: The Political Rise of Tamil in the Dravidian Movement in South India 20: Sipra Mukherjee: The Politics of Language and Dialect in Colonial India: The Case of Asamiya 21: Maryam Borjian and Habib Borjian: Plights of Persian in the Modernization Era 22: Jala Garibova: A Pan-Turkic Dream: Language Unification of Turks 23: Sabine Ehrhart and Fernand Fehlen: Luxembourgish: A Success Story? A Small National Language in a Multilingual Country 24: Anthony Rowley: Bavarian: Successful Dialect or Failed Language? 25: Michael Hornsby and Shaun Nolan: The Regional languages of Brittany 26: Maria-Jose Azurmendi and Iñaki Martinez de Luna: Success-Failure Continuum of Euskara in the Basque Country 27: Miquel Àngel Lledó: The Independent Standardization of Valencian: From Official Use to Underground Resistance 28: Joshua A. Fishman: The Failure of German Language Advocacy among Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews prior to and since the Holocaust 29: Marc L. Greenberg: The Illyrian Movement: A Croatian Vision of South Slavic Unity 30: Marián Sloboda: Belarusian 31: Anna Veronika Wendland: The Ukrainian-Ruthenian Success-Failure Continuum in Austrian Galicia 32: Erling Wande: From Tornedal Finnish to Meänkieli: A Tornedalian Success Story? 33: Tove Bull: Samnorsk 34: Giedrius Subacius: The Forgotten Model of a Separate Standard Lowland Lithuanian: Jurgis Pabreza (1771-1849) 35: Nancy C. Dorian: The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization 36: Ofelia García: Exploring the Variables in Successes and Failures of Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts 37: Joshua A. Fishman: Dubious Arithmetic, Hugging the Center, and Never say Die!

About the Author :
Joshua Fishamn is Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus at Yeshiva University. Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

Review :
"Overall, the volume provides a diverse set of accounts that are cross-comparable enough to serve as a miniature dataset in their own right, but unique enough that each contribution can focus on the factors that matter most for the case being studied."--Linguist List "Allan Tulchin's study of the Reformation of Nîmes contributes in important ways to our understanding of religious change and religious conflict in sixteentth-century France...The book deserves the close attention of scholars in the field."--H-France Review


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  • ISBN-13: 9780195392456
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 156 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 1015 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0195392450
  • Publisher Date: 26 May 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts
  • Width: 234 mm


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