Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective

Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright © 1989......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
SECTION 1......Page 16
1 Language, Ethnicity and Racism......Page 20
2 Language and Ethnicity......Page 34
3 'Nothing New Under the Sun': A Case Study of Alternatives in Language and Ethnocultural Identity......Page 77
4 Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays......Page 108
SECTION 2......Page 188
5 Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena......Page 192
6 Language Maintenance and Ethnicity......Page 213
7 The Societal Basis of the Intergenerational Continuity of Additional Languages......Page 235
8 The Spread of English as a New Perspective for the Study of 'Language Maintenance and Language Shift......Page 244
SECTION 3......Page 276
9 Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays......Page 280
10 On the Peculiar Problems of Smaller National Languages......Page 379
11 Modeling Rationales in Corpus Planning: Modernity and Tradition in Images of the Good Corpus......Page 387
12 Language Spread and Language Policy for Endangered Languages......Page 400
13 Language Policy in the U.S.A. Past, Present, and Future......Page 414
SECTION 4......Page 430
14 The Sociology of Bilingual Education......Page 436
15 Philosophies of Bilingual Education in Societal Perspective......Page 450
16 Ethnic Community Mother Tongue Schools in the U.S.A.: Dynamics and Distributions......Page 463
17 Minority Mother Tongues in Education......Page 476
SECTION 5......Page 492
18 Puerto Rican Intellectuals in New York: Some Intragroup and Intergroup Contrasts......Page 496
19 Attracting a Following to High-Culture Functions for a Language of Everyday Life: The Role of the Tshernovits Language Conference in the 'Rise of Yiddish'......Page 509
20 Ethnic Activists View the Ethnic Revival and its Language Consequences......Page 541
21 Nathan Birnbaum's View of American Jewry......Page 561
SECTION 6......Page 572
22 Whorfianism of the Third Kind: Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Worldwide Societal Asset......Page 575
23 Utilizing Societal Variables to Predict Whether Countries are Linguistically Homogeneous or Heterogeneous......Page 591
24 Cross-Polity Perspective on the Importance of Linguistic Heterogeneity as a 'Contributory Factor' in Civil Strife......Page 616
25 Toward Multilingualism as an International Desideratum in Government, Business, and the Professions......Page 638
26 Bias and Anti-Intellectualism: the Frenzied Fiction of 'English Only'......Page 649
27 The Rise and Fall of the 'Ethnic Revival' in the U.S.A.......Page 666
Taking Leave: Concluding Sentiments......Page 710
INDEX......Page 714