About “Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman”

Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume brings together a selection of his recent writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue with the editors in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work.

Praise for Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization

This wonderful collection of journal articles and book chapters will be useful both as a reference aid and as a classroom text.
—Timothy Reagan, Central Connecticut State University, in Modern Language Journal

This collection of Joshua A. Fishman's essays is well organized, providing just the right amount of breadth for an introduction. The organization of the book makes it highly readable, and allows the reader to skip directly to the section that he/she might like. When finished with this short volume, the reader will certainly be left with the desire to read more of Joshua A. Fishman's essays and books.
—Iris Flannery, Haas School of Business in Linguist List

Publication Information
Multilingual Matters
July 2006
ISBN: 1-85359-900-X
Softcover, $44.95        ORDER
264 pages