Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 (Hardcover)

Joshua Fishman

ISBN 10: 0195392450 / ISBN 13: 9780195392456

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2011

Beschreibung

Hardcover. Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts, assess their relative successes and failures, and place the cases on a success-failure continuum. The reasons for these failures and successes and the linguistic, social, and political contextsinvolved are subtle and highly complex. Some of these factors have to do with whether the language is considered a dialect, as in the cases of Bavarian, Ebonics, and Scots (considered to be dialects of German,American English, and British English, respectively). Other factors have to do with government policy, as in the cases of Basque and Navajo. Still other factors are historical, such as the way Canaanite was supplanted in present-day Israel by another classical language-Hebrew.Although the volume offers considerable sophistication in the treatment of language, ethnicity and identity, it has been written for the non-specialized reader, whether student or layperson. Thecontributors are an international group of well-known scholars in a range of fields. Fishman and Garcia provide a detailed introduction that addresses the difficulty of assessing the success or failure of alanguage. They also present a conclusion that integrates the data presented in the volume. The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a collected volume on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0195392450
• ISBN-13: 9780195392456
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: new

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joshua Fishamn is Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus at Yeshiva University.

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.