Key Features:
- Includes an excellent selection of his recent work and a personal interview
- Book is a legacy of Fishman's work for future generations
Summary:
Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume brings together a selection of his recent writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue with the editors in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work.
Review:
This book engages the reader in Fishman’s persona, his thought-provoking perspectives on sociolinguistic theory, and local and global issues of language revitalization. It is a testament to the depth of insight and the contributions of this exceptional scholar to the field.
Laura Alicia Valdiviezo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Language Policy (2008) Volume 7, Number 4 Hornberger and Pütz's book serves as an excellent introduction to the field of language revitalization as well as to the writings of a pioneering scholar in the reversal of language shift.
Uldis Balodis in the Journal of Sociolinguistics 11:4 2007 This wonderful collection of journal articles and book chapters will be useful both as a reference aid and as a classroom text.
Timothy Reagan, Central Connecticut State University, in Modern Language Journal 91:4 (2007) The book contains an excellent recent selection of his deep insights and vast understandings that need intergenerational transmission. While his writings continue, this collection is a priceless legacy that needs preservation and re-presentation to future generations.
From the foreword by Colin Baker This collection of Joshua A. Fishman's essays is well organized, providing just the right amount of breadth for an introduction. The organization of the book makes it highly readable, and allows the reader to skip directly to the section that he/she might like. When finished with this short volume, the reader will certainly be left with the desire to read more of Joshua A. Fishman's essays and books.
Iris Flannery, Haas School of Business in Linguist List 18.703
Author Biography:
Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She investigates, teaches, lectures, and consults on multilingual language and education policy and practice worldwide, combining methods and perspectives from anthropology and sociolinguistics. Her special focus is indigenous and immigrant heritage language education, grounded in her comparative ethnographic research in the South American Andes and urban Philadelphia (USA). Her most recent book is Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research, and Practice in Multilingual Settings (Multilingual Matters, 2003) and she is General Editor for the forthcoming 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer).Martin Pütz is Full Professor of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (Campus Landau) where he regularly organises linguistic conferences (International LAUD Symposia). His research interests include sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and foreign language teaching/learning. He has done extensive fieldwork in Great Britain, Namibia and Australia on a variety of topics such as intercultural communication, codeswitching, pidgins/creoles, language policy and educational language planning. His recent book publication includes 'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment through Language (with co-editors Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff - van Aertselaer).
Readership Level:
Postgraduate, Research / Professional, Undergraduate
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