Table of Contents

Part 1 Language shift - a preliminary analysis: what this book is about and why it is needed; why try to reverse language shift and is it really possible to do so; "where" and "why" does language shift occur and how can it be reversed?; how threatened is threatened? Part 2 Case studies - a baker's dozen from several continents. Part 3 Safeguarding the future: on RLS-focused language planning and on dialect-standard issues and corpus planning in particular; the intergenerational transmission of "additional" languages for special purpose; limitations on school effectiveness in connection with mother tongue transmission; theoretical recapitulation.

About the Author

Joshua A. Fishman is retired Emeritus Distinguished University Research Professor (Yeshiva University and Stanford University) and a frequent award recipient, lecturer, and publisher. He is also the co-founder of the field of sociolinguistics and founding editor of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language.