Reversing Language Shift

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.

• Author’s PrefaceLANGUAGE SHIFT AND REVERSING LANGUAGE SHIFT: INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS1. What This Book as About and Why lt is Needed2. Why Try to Reverse Language Shift and Is It Really Possible To Do So?3. ‘Where' and 'Why' Does Language Shift Occur and How Can It Be Reversed? Locating Language Shift in Social Space and in Societal Dynamics4. How Threatened is 'Threatened'? A Typology of Disadvantaged Languages and Ameliorative PrioritiesCASE STUDIES: A BAKER’S DOZEN FROM SEVERAL CONTINENTS5. Irish: What More Can Be Done?6. The Cases of Basque and Frisian7. Four American Examples: Navajo, Spanish and Yiddish (Secular and Ultra·Orthodox)8. Maori: The Native Language of New Zealand9. Prospects for Reversing Language Shift in Australia: Evidence from its Aboriginal and Immigrant Languages10. Three Success Stories (More or Less): Modern Hebrew, French in Quebec and Catalan in SpainRELATED ISSUES AND RECAPITULATION11. On RLS-Focused Language Planning and on Dialect-Standard Issues and Corpus Planning in Particular12. The lntergenerational Transmission of 'Additional' Languages for Special Purposes13. Limitations on School Effectiveness in Connection with Mother Tongue Transmission14. Theoretical Recapitulation: What is Reversing Language Shift (RLS) and How Can It Succeed?