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Author Fishman, Joshua A.

Title Reversing language shift : theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages / Joshua A. Fishman
Published Clevedon ; Philadelphia : Multilingual Matters, 1991

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 MELB  306.449 FIS-R  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Multilingual matters ; 76
Multilingual matters (Series) ; 76
Contents Language shift and reversing language shift -- 1. What this book is about -- 2. Why try to reverse language shift and is it possible to do so? -- 3. Where and why does language shift occur an how can it be reversed? -- 4. How threatened is threatened -- Case studies -- 5. Irish -- 6. the cases of Basque and Frisian -- 7. Four American examples: Navajo, Spanish and Yiddish -- 8 Maori -- 9. Prospects for reversing language shift in Australia -- 10. Three success stories: Modern Hebrew, French in Quebec and Catalan in Spain. -- Related issues -- 11. On RLS-focused language planning and on dialect-standard issues -- 12. The intergenerational transmission of additional languages for special purposes -- 13. Limitations on school effectiveness in connection with mother tongue transmission -- 14. Theoretical recapitulation
Analysis Minority languages
Notes Cover title: Reversing language shift
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Also issued online
Subject Code switching (Linguis;tics)
Code switching (Linguistics)
Language planning.
Linguistic minorities.
LC no. 91016626
ISBN 1853591211 (paperback)
185359122X
Other Titles Reversing language shift