In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that attended it. Following the story up until the present day, the book examines the people who became leaders of the growth of vernacular literacy in Europe, and looks at how European colonizers viewed vernacular literacy efforts in their current and former colonies. Looking forward, Fishman discusses how new technology affects vernacular literacy both now and in the present, and whether developments in voice and visual media mean that vernacular literacy will be less important to future generations than it is to us. ‘European Vernacular Literacy' is not only a review of well-known facts and theories of the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, but an attempt to reintegrate and rethink them along new and provocative lines, meaning that the book will be of interest not only to students of literacy and history but also to scholars interested in Fishman's latest contribution to sociolinguistics.

European Vernacular Literacy: A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 19)

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Fishman, Prof. Joshua A.

Words, Language & Grammar

Multilingual Matters

<p>A selection of Professor Fishman's writings, during the past two decades, 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. Each major topic is prefaced by a specially written introduction, as is the volume as a whole, thereby integrating the material and focusing it on minority group concerns. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism, not only as moral imperatives but as empirical assets, shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.</p>

Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective (Multilingual Matters, 45)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A selection of Professor Fishman's writings, during the past two decades, 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. Each major topic is prefaced by a specially written introduction, as is the volume as a whole, thereby integrating the material and focusing it on minority group concerns. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism, not only as moral imperatives but as empirical assets, shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.

This superbly organised presentation consists of four introductory theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, six chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and four concluding chapters that both restate the underlying theory as well as apply it more broadly, beyond the mother tongue transmission nexus, to second language for which intergenerational continuity is pursued precisely as second languages.

Reversing Language Shift (Multilingual Matters, 76)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

<p>This book documents ongoing language shift to English among Latino professionals in California 67% of which studied Spanish formally in high school and 54% of which studied Spanish in college. Taking into account the recommendations about the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language made by these professionals, the book then describes current instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high school and university levels to “heritage” language students who, although educated entirely in English, acquired Spanish at home as their first language. The suggestions made by the Professionals concentrated almost exclusively on Spanish language maintenance (e.g., making cultural/historical connections; showing relevance and significance of language to students' lives, teaching other subjects in Spanish, teaching legal, medical, business terms in Spanish). The study of goals currently guiding instruction for heritage speakers of Spanish at both the high school and the college levels, on the other hand, raise questions about the potential contribution of educational institutions to the maintenance and retention of Spanish among the current Spanish-speaking population of California.</p>

Developing Minority Language Resources: The Case of Spanish in California (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 58)

Pérez, William

Valdés, Prof. Guadalupe

Chávez, Rebecca

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European Vernacular Literacy: A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 19)

European Vernacular Literacy: A Sociolinguistic and Historical Introduction (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 19)

Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective (Multilingual Matters, 45)

Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective (Multilingual Matters, 45)

Reversing Language Shift (Multilingual Matters, 76)

Developing Minority Language Resources: The Case of Spanish in California (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 58)