Joshua Fishman
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Professor Joshua Aaron Fishman is an American social scientist and linguist at Stanford University.
His research interests include language and nationalism, language and religion, language and ethnicity, language planning — including ausbau languages and the Yiddish language.
He also specialises in the sociolinguistics of minority languages, small languages and small language communities, particularly in regard to language planning, language revival and reversing language shift.
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- 1991 Reversing language Shift: Theory and Practice of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.
- 1996 Post-Imperial English: The Status of English in Former British and American Colonies and Spheres of Influence. (ed.) Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
- 1997 In Praise of the Beloved Language; The Content of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter.
- 1997 The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York (with Ofelia Garcia). Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter.
- 1999 Handbook of Language and Ethnicity (ed.). New York, Oxford University Press.
- 2000 Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.
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