Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction SECTION l. WHAT IS ETHNICITY AND HOW IS IT LINKED TO LANGUAGE? PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANDSOCIO-HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS1. Language, Ethnicity and Racism2. Language and Ethnicity3. 'Nothing New under the Sun': A Case Study of Alternatives in Language and Ethnocultural Identity4. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative EssaysPart I. The Nature of NationalismSECTION 2. LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE SHIFT IN ETHNOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE5. Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena6. Language Maintenance and Ethnicity7. The Societal Basis of the Intergenerational Continuity of Additional Languages8. The Spread of English as a New Perspective for the Study of 'Language Maintenance and Language Shift'SECTION 3. THE ETHNIC DIMENSION IN LANGUAGE PLANNING9. Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative EssaysPart II. The Impact of Nationalism on Language and Language Planning10. On the Peculiar Problems of Smaller National Languages11. Modeling Rationales in Corpus Planning: Modernity and Tradition in Images of the Good Corpus12. Language Spread and Language Policy for Endangered Languages13. Language Policy in the United States: Past, Present and FutureSECTION 4. LANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY IN EDUCATION: THE BILINGUAL MINORITY FOCUS14. The Sociology of Bilingual Education15. Philosophies of Bilingual Education in Societal Perspective16. Ethnic Community Mother Tongue School in the U.S.A.: Dynamics and Distributions17. Minority Mother Tongues in EducationSECTION 5. ELITES AND RANK-AND-FILE: CONTRASTS AND CONTEXTS IN ETHNOLINGUISTIC BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDES18. Puerto Rican Intellectuals in New York: Some lntragroup and Intergroup Contrasts19. Attracting a Following to High-Culture Functions for a Language of Everyday Life: The Role of the Tshernovits Language Conference in the 'Rise of Yiddish'20. Ethnic Activists View the Ethnic Revival and its Language Consequences21. Nathan Birnbaum's View of American JewrySECTION 6. ETHNOLINGUISTIC HOMOGENEITY AND HETEROGENEITY: WORLDWIDE CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND ASPIRATIONS22. Whorfianism of the Third Kind: Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Worldwide Societal Asset23. Utilizing Societal Variables to Predict Whether Countries are Linguistically Homogeneous or Heterogeneous24. Cross-Polity Perspective on the Importance of Linguistic Heterogeneity as a 'Contributory Factor' in Civil Strife25. Toward Multilingualism as an International Desideratum in Government, Business and the Professions26. Bias and Anti-Intellectualism: The Frenzied Fiction of 'English Only'27. The Rise and Fall of the 'Ethnic Revival' in the U.S.A.Taking Leave: Concluding Sentiments