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Defenders of threatened languages all over the world, from advocates of biodiversity to dedicated defenders of their own cultural authenticity, are often humbled by the immensity of the task that they are faced with when the weak and the few seek to find a safe-harbour against the ravages of the strong and the many. This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from all five continents and advances thereby the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

Table of Contents:
PREFACE: Reversing Language Shift 1. Why is it so Hard to Save a Threatened Language? - Joshua A. Fishman THE AMERICAS: 2. Reversing Navajo Language Shift, Revisited - Tiffany Lee (Stanford Univ) and Daniel McLaughlin (Dine College) 3. How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? - Ofelia Garcia (Long Island Univ), Jose Luis Morin (City Univ of New York) and Klaudia Rivera (Long Island Univ) 4. A Decade in the Life of a Two-in-One Language - Yiddish in New York City - Joshua A. Fishman 5. Reversing Language Shift in Quebec - Richard Y. Bourhis (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) 6. Otomi Language Shift and Some Recent Efforts to Reverse it - Yolanda Lastra (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) 7. Reversing Quechua Language Shift in South America - Nancy H. Hornberger (Univ of Pennsylvania) and Kendall A. King (New York Univ) EUROPE: 8. Irish Language Production and Reproduction 1981-1996 - Pádraig Ó Riagáin (Institiuid Teangeolaiochta Eireann) 9. A Frisian Update of Reversing Language Shift - Durk Gorter (Fryske Academy) 10. Reversing Language Shift: The Case of Basque - Maria-Jose Azurmendi (Univ of the Basque Country), Erramun Bachoc (Basque Cultural Institute) and Francisca Zabeleta (Public University of Navarre) 11. Catalan A Decade Later - Miquel Strubell (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) AFRICA AND ASIA: 12. Saving Threatened Languages in Africa: A Case Study of Oko - Efurosibina Adegbija (Univ of Ilorin, Nigeria) 13. Andamanese: Biological Challenge for Language Reversal - E. Annamalai & V. Gnanasundaram (C.I.I.L, Mysore) 14. "Akor Itak" Our Language, Your Language - Ainu in Japan - John C. Maher (International Christian Univ, Tokyo) 15. Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts - Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Illan Univy) and Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv Univ). THE PACIFIC: 16. Can the Shift from Immigrant Languages be Reversed in Australia? - Michael Clyne (Monash Univ) 17. Is the Extinction of Australia's Indigenous Languages Inevitable? - Joseph Lo Bianco and Mari Rhydwen (National Language and Literacy Institute of Australia) 18. RLS in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1989-1999 - Richard & Nena Benton (Waikato University) CONCLUSIONS: 19. From Theory to Practice (and Vice Versa): Review, Reconsideration and Reiteration - Joshua A. Fishman

About the Author :
Joshua A. Fishman, a leading sociolinguist, is Distinguished University Research Professor, Social Sciences, Emeritus, at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, New York University, City University of New York Graduate Center and Long Island University. He is the author/editor of 38 books including Reversing Language Shift (Multilingual Matters, 1991) and the General Editor (and founder) of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and of the book series Contributions to the Sociology of Language.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781853597060
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 520
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1853597066
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jan 2001
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 116 Multilingual Matters


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