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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826565203321

Autore

García Ofelia

Titolo

Language loyalty, continuity and change : Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics / / Ofelia Garcia, Rakhmiel Peltz, and Harold Schiffman ; with Gella Schweid Fishman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon, England ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50781-0

9786610507818

1-85359-904-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; ; 60

Altri autori (Persone)

PeltzRakhmiel <1945->

SchiffmanHarold F

Disciplina

370.44

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Fishmanian Sociolinguistics (1949 to the Present) -- The History of Yiddish Studies: Take Notice! -- A Week in the Life of a Man from the Moon -- Joshua A. Fishman’s Bibliographical Inventory -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics from 1949 to the present. Readers will find in this volume the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics in two short essays that integrate his life's work. The first essay by García and Schiffman identifies the major theoretical contributions and the development of Fishmanian sociolinguistics, often echoing Fishman's own words. The essay by Peltz then analyzes Fishman´s contributions to Yiddish scholarship, as well as the role of that scholarship in his general work. These essential understandings are then extended through Fishman's own concluding sentiments, as well as by the comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography of over 1,000 titles of Joshua A. Fishman's work, compiled by his wife, Gella Schweid Fishman. Together, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to the life work of one of the world's most prolific and original scholars in the field of sociolinguistics



-- the founder of what we refer to in this volume as Fishmanian sociolinguistics.