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Yiddish
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ISBN: 9027220751 1556191111 9786613423993 1283423995 9027274304 9789027274304 9781556191114 1556194501 9781556194504 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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Worldwide interest in Yiddish has often concentrated on its secular forms of expression: its literature, its theater, its journalism and its political-party associations. This all-encompassing study, covers these phenomena as well as investigating the demographic and political mushrooming of Yiddish-speaking Ultra-Orthodoxy, both in America and in Israel. As the title suggests, this volume attempts to show that Yiddish is now finally on the path towards recovery. The volume consists of 17 papers grouped into five sections: Yiddish and Hebrew: Conflict and Symbiosis; Yiddish in America; Corpus

Reversing language shift : theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages
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ISBN: 0585126178 9780585126173 185359122X 1853591211 9781853591228 9781853591211 Year: 1991 Publisher: Clevedon Multilingual Matters


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Yiddish, the fifteenth Slavic language : a study of partial language shift from Judeo-Sorbian to German
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Year: 1991 Publisher: Berlin ; New york : Mouton de Gruyter,

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Reversing Language Shift
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ISBN: 9781800418097 Year: 1991 Publisher: Bristol Blue Ridge Summit

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This book consists of theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and concluding chapters that both restate and apply the underlying theory to second language for which intergenerational continuity is pursued precisely as second languages.

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Bilingual education
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ISBN: 1556191162 9027220808 9789027284785 9027284784 9781556191169 1283121824 9786613121820 9789027220806 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language maintenance and revitalization, still others look at ways in which bilingual education could stabilize the functions of the societal languages. All contributions support bilingualism in society and consider how bilingual education could promote that goal. A special section is devoted to US policies and po


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Language planning
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ISBN: 9027220824 1556191189 9786613121806 9027284768 1283121808 9789027284761 9781283121804 6613121800 9789027220820 9781556191183 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and social intricacies of language planning in the European Community, in India, on the African continent, in Israel, Cuba and Quebec. Two papers deal with corpus planning from a lexicological (Yiddish) and terminological point of view.


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Language and ethnicity
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ISBN: 1283121816 9786613121813 9027284776 9789027284778 9027220816 9789027220813 1556191170 9781556191176 9781283121811 6613121819 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various language minorities' as well as Judeo-English and Yiddish spoken by children of Jewish immigrants.


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Focus on Bilingual Education : Essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman. Volume 1
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Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language maintenance and revitalization, still others look at ways in which bilingual education could stabilize the functions of the societal languages. All contributions support bilingualism in society and consider how bilingual education could promote that goal. A special section is devoted to US policies and po

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Bilingualism.

The Influence of language on culture and thought : essays in honor of Joshua A. Fishman's sixty-fifth birthday
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ISBN: 0899258026 3110128063 9780899258027 9783110128062 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,


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Sociolinguistic studies in the Philippines
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Year: 1991 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

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