Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2
The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 May 2011
- ISBN 9780195392456
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 156x234x33 mm
- Weight 962 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a collected volume on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity.
MoreLong description:
Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts, assess their relative successes and failures, and place the cases on a success-failure continuum. The reasons for these failures and successes and the linguistic, social, and political contexts involved are subtle and highly complex. Some of these factors have to do with whether the language is considered a dialect, as in the cases of Bavarian, Ebonics, and Scots (considered to be dialects of German, American English, and British English, respectively). Other factors have to do with government policy, as in the cases of Basque and Navajo. Still other factors are historical, such as the way Canaanite was supplanted in present-day Israel by another classical language-Hebrew.
Although the volume offers considerable sophistication in the treatment of language, ethnicity and identity, it has been written for the non-specialized reader, whether student or layperson. The contributors are an international group of well-known scholars in a range of fields. Fishman and García provide a detailed introduction that addresses the difficulty of assessing the success or failure of a language. They also present a conclusion that integrates the data presented in the volume.
Overall, the volume provides a diverse set of accounts that are cross-comparable enough to serve as a miniature dataset in their own right, but unique enough that each contribution can focus on the factors that matter most for the case being studied.
Table of Contents:
Forward
Examining Contrarianism: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic-Identity Efforts
Afrikaans: Success or Failure?
Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization
The Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco
The Promotion of Moroccan Arabic: Successes and Failures
The Survival of French in Tunisian Identity
Hebrew Revivalists' Goals vis a vis the Emerging Israeli Language
African American language in U.S. Education and Society: A Story of Success and Failure
Learning English in Puerto Rico: An Approach-Avoidance Conflict?
The Reforming of English Spelling
Quechua Language Policy and Planning in Peru
Paradoxes of Quechua Language Revitalization in Bolivia: Back and forth Along the Success-Failure Continuum
North Korea's Language Revision and Some Unforeseen Consequences
Simplifying Chinese Characters: Not a Simple Matter
Problems of Orthography Development for the Yi in China
Planning for Failure: English and Language Policy and Planning in Bangladesh
The Emergence, Role, and Future of the Malay in Singapore
