Joshua A. Fishman • Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective (Multilingual Matters, 45)
Multilingual Matters, 1989. Paperback. X, 717 pages.
VG- Clean, square, and firm. Cover shows moderate wear at extremities. Bookstore sticker to back cover. Pages are bright and free of markings.
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A selection of Professor Fishman's writings on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, this volume concentrates on six major topics:
• What is ethnicity and how is it linked to language?
• Language maintenance and language shift in ethnocultural perspective
• The ethnic dimension in language planning
• Language and ethnicity in education: the bilingual minority focus
• Elites and rank-and-file: contrasts and contexts
• Ethnolinguistic homogeneity and heterogeneity: national and international causes and consequences.
