Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? - Paperback

by Joshua A. Fishman (Editor)

This book provides both practical case studies and theoretical directions from five continents and advances the collective pursuit of "reversing language shift" for the greater benefit of cultural democracy everywhere.

Author Biography

Joshua A. Fishman, a leading sociolinguist, is Distinguished University Research Professor, Social Sciences, Emeritus, at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University, and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, New York University, City University of New York Graduate Center and Long Island University. He is the author/editor of 38 books including Reversing Language Shift (Multilingual Matters, 1991) and the General Editor (and founder) of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and of the book series Contributions to the Sociology of Language.