Joshua Fishman

Joshua Fishman durant una conferéncia sul gaelic a l'Universitat d'Aberdeen en 2007

Joshua Aaron Fishman, o tanben popularament Shikl Fishman (en yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן ; Filadèlfia, 18 de julh de 1926 – Nòva York, 1 de març de 2015) foguèt un lingüista american. Especializat en sociologia del lengatge, planificacion lingüistica, educacion bilinga, e lenga e etnicitat, desvolopèt e popularizèt lo concèpte de diglossia elaborat inicialament pel lingüista Charles A. Ferguson.

Òbras

• Yiddish in America: socio-linguistic description and analysis (1965)
• Language loyalty in the United States; the maintenance and perpetuation of non-English mother tongues by American ethnic and religious groups (1966)
• Hungarian language maintenance in the United States (1966)
• Language problems of developing nations (1968)
• Readings in the sociology of language (1968)
• Sociolinguistics: a brief introduction (1970)
• Bilingualism in the barrio (1971)
• Advances in the sociology of language (1971-2)
• Language in Sociocultural Change. Essays by Joshua A. Fishman. (1972)
• The sociology of language; an interdisciplinary social science approach to language in society (1972)
• Language and nationalism; two integrative essays (1973)
• Advances in language planning. (1974)
• Bilingual education: an international sociological perspective(1976)
• Advances in the creation and revision of writing systems (1977)
• Advances in the study of societal multilingualism (1978)
• Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters (1981)
• 1982. The acquisition of biliteracy: a comparative ethnography of minority ethnolinguistic schools in New York City. New York, N.Y.: Yeshiva University, Ferkauf Graduate School
• 1982. Bilingual education for Hispanic students in the United States. New York: Teachers College Press
• 1983. Progress in language planning: international perspectives. Berlin & New York: Mouton.
• 1985. The rise and fall of the ethnic revival: perspectives on language and ethnicity. Berlin & New York: Mouton
• 1987. Ideology, Society and Language: The Odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers
• 1991. Bilingual education. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
• 1991. Reversing language Shift: Theory and Practice of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters. (ISBN 185359122X) (ISBN 978-1-85359-122-8)
• 1991. Language and Ethnicity. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co
• 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
• Handbook of Language and Ethnicity (1999)
• Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? (2000)
• Do Not Leave Your Language Alone: The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy (2006)