The multilingual Apple [[electronic resource] ] : languages in New York City / / edited by Ofelia García, Joshua A. Fishman

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
• Edizione: 2nd ed. /
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/09747/1
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic minorities - New York (State) - New York; Sociolinguistics - New York (State) - New York
• Soggetto geografico: New York (N.Y.) Languages
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FishmanJoshua A GarcíaOfelia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE -- New York's multilingualism: World languages and their role in a U. S. city / García, Ofelia -- II. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY ARRIVALS: STILL ENCOUNTERED -- Irish in nineteenth century New York / Nilsen, Kenneth E. -- German in New York / Costello, John R. -- Yiddish in New York / Kliger, Hannah / Peltz, Rakhmiel -- III. THE LANGUAGES WITH VITALITY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT -- Italian in New York / Haller, Hermann W. -- Greek in New York / Costantakos, Chrysie M. / Spiridakis, John N. -- Spanish in New York / Zentella, Ana Celia -- Hebrew in New York / Schiff, Alvin I. -- IV. THE LANGUAGES WITH THE NEWEST SOUNDS AND OF NEWEST FACES -- Chinese in New York / Pan, Shiwen -- The languages of India in New York / Sridhar, Kamal K. -- Haitian Creole in New York / Berotte Joseph, Carole M. -- English Caribbean Creole in New York / Winer, Lise / Jack, Lona -- V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE -- Do ethnics have culture? And what's so special about New York anyway? / Fishman, Joshua A. -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most important United States city, New York. At the same time this volume makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German, Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek , Spanish, Hebrew), and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today (Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).
• Titolo autorizzato: The multilingual Apple
• ISBN: 3-11-088581-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464453403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II