Language and EthnicityJames R. Dow 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Do they love it in their hearts? | 9 |
Linguistic Markers of Anabaptist Ethnicity through Four Centuries | 23 |
Changes in Barcelona 19801987 | 61 |
The Case of Rosalía de Castro | 83 |
Making Ethnicity Salient in Codeswitching | 95 |
Ethnic Rivalry Redivivus | 111 |
The Emergence of Language Minorities in the United States | 131 |
Theory and Method in the Study of Language Shift | 145 |
A SoCalled Dialect of English | 169 |
Children of Jewish Immigrants Return to Their First Language | 183 |
Whither Ethnic Languages and Bilingual Education in the US? Crisis the Struggle between Hegemony Humanism | 207 |
References | 225 |
Contributors | 245 |
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American anglicisation areas assimilation become behavior bilingual education Bisayan Castilian speakers Catalan language Catalonia Cebu Cebuano Census century children of immigrants conversation dative dialect diglossia distinct dominant Enninger ethnic group ethnic identity ethnic language ethnolinguistic ethnos example Filipino Gonzalez greeting guage guistic hegemonic humanistic indicator interaction Jewish language Jews Joshua Fishman Kikuyu language and ethnicity language policy language practice language shift linguistic linguistic repertoire Luyia Manila marked choice markedness Mennonite monolingualism mother tongue Nairobi national language native speakers nonsectarian norm old ethnicity Old Order Amish outgroup language paradigm parents Pennsylvania German person Philippines political population programs question rates of language RO balance Rosalía de Castro salient second language sectarians shared ethnicity social society sociolinguistic solidarity Spanish spoken Swahili switching symbolic Tagalog Täufer tion United University unmarked variety Veltman verbs world view Yiddish language