Language loyalty, continuity and change : Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international soci...

Table Of Contents:
Foreword by Florian Coulmas xi
PART 1: INTEGRATIVE ESSAYS

Fishmanian Sociolinguistics (1949 to the Present) by Ofelia Garcia and Harold Schiffman with the assistance of Zeena Zakharia

Introduction 3(3)

Before an intellectual prophet and leader 3(2)

This essay 5(1)

Language and Behavior and Fishmanian Sociolinguistics 6(5)

The pioneering efforts 6(1)

Definitions 7(1)

Growing pains: Sociolinguistics vs. sociology of language.

'And never the twain shall meet?' 8(2)

Growth and hopes 10(1)

Multilingualism 11(12)

Multilingualism in Fishmanian sociolinguistic perspective 11(1)

Viewing multilingualism differently 12(2)

A Fishmanian sociolinguistic model for the study of multilingualism: Methodological propositions 14(4)

A Fishmanian sociolinguistic model for the study of multilingualism: Theoretical propositions 18(5)

Domains 18(1)

Diglossia 19(4)

Language Maintenance/Language Shift/Reversing Language Shift 23(4)

Language maintenance/language shift 23(2)

Reversing language shift (RLS) 25(2)

Language Spread 27(2)

Language Attitudes and Language and Ethnicity/Nationalism/Identity/Religion/Power 29(9)

Language attitudes 29(1)

Language and ethnicity 30(3)

Language and nationalism 33(1)

Language and identity 34(1)

Language and power 35(2)

Language and religion 37(1)

Language Planning and Language Policy 38(4)

Language policy 38(1)

Language planning 39(3)

Bilingual Education and Minority-Language Group Education 42(10)

Scholarly interest 42(1)

Education 43(1)

Early typologies and warnings 44(2)

International perspectives and advantages 46(2)

Critic of the Bilingual Education Act 48(1)

Transitional vs. enrichment bilingual education 49(1)

Two-way dual language bilingual education 50(2)

Conclusion 52(2)

Appendix 1: Joshua A. Fishman' s Contributions to the Sociology of Language (CSL) book series 54(3)

Appendix 2: Joshua A. Fishman' s Contributions to the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 57(5)

Appendix 3: Google Scholar Citations of Joshua A. Fishman's Work 62(3)

References 65(4)

The History of Yiddish Studies: Take Notice! by Rakhmiel Peltz

Minority Languages and Cultures Have Their Own Research Agendas 69(3)

Fishman's Approach to Yiddish Research 72(1)

The Special Needs of Research on Minority Languages in Their Social Contexts: The Case of Yiddish 72(7)

Fishman's Yiddish Research Oeuvre 79(2)

Ales in eynem iz nito ba keynem ('No one person can embody all attributes,' Yiddish proverb) 81(13)

The centrality of the Birnbaum study 81(3)

The structure of the volume 84(1)

Birnbaum's phases 84(3)

Birnbaum's work, Fishman's work 87(1)

The Tshernovits Conference 88(5)

Biography 93(1)

Language Resources in the United States 94(1)

Yiddish, One of Many Jewish Languages 95(3)

Yiddish in Israel 97(1)

Holiness and Yiddish 98(4)

Corpus Planning for Yiddish 102(1)

Conclusions: Fishman the Filolog 103(2)

References 105(21)
PART 2: CONCLUDING SENTIMENTS

A Week in the Life of a Man from the Moon by Joshua A. Fishman
PART 3: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INVENTORY

Joshua A. Fishman's Bibliographical Inventory compiled by Gella Schweid Fishman

Books, Monographs and Reports 126(4)

Articles and Book Chapters 130(35)

Reviews, Prefaces, Comments and Notes 165(6)

Popular Articles 171(5)

Interviews 176(2)
Index 178