The Lively Life of a “Dead“ Language (or “Everyone Knows that Yiddish Died Long Ago”)

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Foreword ix
4. Contents xiii
5. INTRODUCTION
6. The Language of Imperialism: Unity or Pluralism? 3
7. SECTION ONE: ORIGINS AND PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY
8. LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY
9. Patterns of Sociolinguistic Inequality in Mesoamerica 21
10. The Fate of Spanish in the United States: The Puerto Rican Experience 41
11. The Language of Power in Cree Interethnic Communication 61
12. PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE CHOICE
13. Ethnic Relations and Language Use in Montréal 75
14. Catalonia: The Dilemma of Language Rights 91
15. The Special Relation of Guarani and Spanish in Paraguay 111
16. LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN THE COMMUNITY
17. Vernacular and Standard Swahili as Seen by Members of the Mombasa Swahili Speech Community 123
18. Standard and Non-Standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum 145
19. PATTERNS OF SHIFT AND MAINTENANCE: A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH
20. The Ultimate Inequality: Linguistic Genocide 163
21. The Imperial Languages of the Andes 182
22. Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Some Data from Australia 195
23. The Lively Life of a “Dead“ Language (or “Everyone Knows that Yiddish Died Long Ago”) 207
24. SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
25. LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL PLANNING: OVERT AND COVERT INFLUENCES
26. The Social Context of Language Standardization in India 225
27. English, Swahili, or Other Languages? The Relationship of Educational Development Goals to Language of Instruction in Kenya and Tanzania 241
28. Linguistic Inequality in Hawaii: The Post-Creole Dilemma 255
29. The Sociology of Language Learning and Teaching in a Creole Situation 273
30. The New Language Policy in Nigeria: Its Problems and Its Chances of Success 285
31. CLASSROOM INTERACTION AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY
32. Bilingual Education in Peru and Bolivia 297
33. Indian Children in Anglo Classrooms 311
34. Expressing Alienation: Creole in the Classroom 325
35. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUNCTIONS OF MULTILINGUALISM
36. Language and Social Mobility in Singapore 337
37. Sociolinguistic Inequality and Language Problems of Linguistic Minorities in India 355
38. The Status of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) and Attitudes Towards It 373
39. Language and Development in Africa: The Unequal Equation 387
40. Diversity in Communication and Languages; Predicament of a Multilingual Nation State: India, A Case Study 399
41. List of Contributors 409
42. 412 412