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Peer reviewedFishman, Joshua A.; Fishman, David E. – International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1974
Descriptors: Hebrew, Language Planning, Language Usage, Monolingualism
Peer reviewedFishman, Joshua A. – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1991
Analysis of 238 variables pertaining to 170 polities indicated that linguistic heterogeneity could not independently predict either gross national product or civil strife, with the former primarily accounted for by modernization and industrialization variables, and the latter by long- and short-term deprivation and inadequate coercive power. (14…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Industrialization, Language Attitudes, Language Standardization
Fishman, Joshua A. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups, Language Research
Peer reviewedSawaie, Mohammed; Fishman, Joshua A. – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1985
Describes the use of Arabic in the news media, worship places, and schools of Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s and in the 1980s. Predicts that Arabic usage among 1980s immigrants will follow a pattern, noted among early immigrants, in which Arabic usage gradually diminishes. (KH)
Descriptors: Arabic, Arabs, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCooper, Robert L.; Fishman, Joshua A. – Linguistics, 1974
Eighteen issues are outlined concerning theory and measurement of attitude, and language attitude in particular, and research motivated by these issues described. (RM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Language Research, Language Role, Language Styles
Fertig, Sheldon; Fishman, Joshua A. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, English (Second Language), Language Research
Peer reviewedFishman, Joshua A. – Linguistics, 1974
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Standardization, Language Usage, Policy Formation
Fishman, Joshua A. – Mod Lang J, 1969
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Patterns
Peer reviewedFishman, Joshua A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1977
This paper explores some of the relationships between knowing, using and liking English as an additional language. Data was gathered from teachers and students in India, Indonesia and Israel. In predicting acquisition and use, non-attitudinal factors are primary whereas attitudinal factors are primary in predicting attitudes. (CFM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language Usage
Fishman, Joshua A. – Vox, 1992
Examines Australia's reverse language shift (RLS), presenting eight stages of RLS for immigrant-derived and Aboriginal languages and noting the severity of intergenerational dislocation. Aboriginal languages are dying quickly, and language shift continues in immigrant-based community languages. Steps to encourage second language learning are often…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Peer reviewedFishman, Joshua A.; Herasimchuk, Eleanor – American Anthropologist, 1969
The data analyzed for this report was obtained as part of an interdisciplinary project on the measurement and description of widespread and relatively stable bilingualism in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Greater New York City area (Fishman, Cooper, Ma, et al. 1968). The area studied by the team of linguists, psychologists, and sociolinguists…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Demography, Field Interviews, Interdisciplinary Approach
Fishman, Joshua A. – 1972
The extent to which the language planning that has been pursued in many localities and in many periods has been guided by nationalism, that is, by "...the social movements, attitudes, and ideologies which characterize the behavior of nationalities engaged in the struggle to achieve, maintain or enhance their position in the world" (Wirth 1936) is…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Language Planning
