A selection of Professor Fishman’s writings, during the past two decades, on language and ethnicity in minority perspective, this volume concentrates on six major o What is ethnicity and how is it linked to language?o Language maintenance and language shift in ethnocultural perspectiveo The ethnic dimension in language planningo Language and ethnicity in the bilingual minority focuso Elites and contrasts and contextso Ethnolinguistic homogeneity and national and international causes and consequences.Each major topic is prefaced by a specially written introduction, as is the volume as a whole, thereby integrating the material and focusing it on minority group concerns. Joshua Fishman’s well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism, not only as moral imperatives but as empirical assets, shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.

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