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Focus on Language and Ethnicity
Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 2
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Main description:An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various language minorities' as well as Judeo-English and Yiddish spoken by children of Jewish immigrants. Contributors Joanna Courteau, James R. Dow, Werner Enninger, Andrew Gonzalez, Marion Lois Huffines, Alan S. Kaye, Rolf Kjolseth, David E. Lopez, Caron Myers-Scotton, Rakhmiel Peltz, Calvi...
Main description:
An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various language minorities' as well as Judeo-English and Yiddish spoken by children of Jewish immigrants. Contributors Joanna Courteau, James R. Dow, Werner Enninger, Andrew Gonzalez, Marion Lois Huffines, Alan S. Kaye, Rolf Kjolseth, David E. Lopez, Caron Myers-Scotton, Rakhmiel Peltz, Calvin Veltman and Kathryn A. Woolard.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Pennsylvania German
- Linguistic Markers of Anabaptist Ethnicity through Four Centuries
- Linkages of Language and Ethnic Identity
- Language and Ethnicity
- Making Ethnicity Salient in Codeswitching
- Cebuano and Tagalog
- The Emergence of Language Minorities in the United States
- Theory and Method in the Study of Language Shift
- A So-Called Dialect of English
- Ethnic Identity and Aging
- Wither Ethnic Languages and Bilingual Education in the US? Crisis & the Struggle betweenHegemony & Humanism
- References
- Contributors
- Index
An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various language minorities' as well as Judeo-English and Yiddish spoken by children of Jewish immigrants. Contributors Joanna Courteau, James R. Dow, Werner Enninger, Andrew Gonzalez, Marion Lois Huffines, Alan S. Kaye, Rolf Kjolseth, David E. Lopez, Caron Myers-Scotton, Rakhmiel Peltz, Calvin Veltman and Kathryn A. Woolard.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Pennsylvania German
- Linguistic Markers of Anabaptist Ethnicity through Four Centuries
- Linkages of Language and Ethnic Identity
- Language and Ethnicity
- Making Ethnicity Salient in Codeswitching
- Cebuano and Tagalog
- The Emergence of Language Minorities in the United States
- Theory and Method in the Study of Language Shift
- A So-Called Dialect of English
- Ethnic Identity and Aging
- Wither Ethnic Languages and Bilingual Education in the US? Crisis & the Struggle betweenHegemony & Humanism
- References
- Contributors
- Index