ELL: Book Announcement: Assessing Ethnolinguistic Vitality

[Paul Lewis]

       SIL International announces the publication of the third volume
       in its series "SIL Publications in Sociolinguistics" with the
       release of Assessing Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Theory and
       Practice edited by Gloria E. Kindell and M. Paul Lewis.

       The volume is a collection of selected papers presented at
       SIL's Third International Language Assessment Conference held
       in 1997. These papers, written by leading scholars as well as
       SIL's language survey specialists from around the world,
       reflect various issues related to ethnolinguistic vitality and
       its assessment. The nine papers included in the volume
       represent a variety of interdisciplinary approaches coming from
       the sociology of language, the anthropological grid/group
       model, social network theory, motivations for ethnolinguistic
       vitality maintenance, power and solidarity orientations,
       language ecology, social mobilization, and the role of beliefs
       about language.

       The Table of Contents is as follows:

       Joshua A. Fishman - Reversing Language Shift: RLS Theory and
       Practice Revisited
       Christina Bratt Paulston - Ethnicity, Ethnic Movements, and
       Language Maintenance
       Salikoko S. Mufwene - Language Contact, Evolution, and Death:
       How Ecology Rolls the Dice
       Mark E. Karan - Motivations: Language Vitality Assessments
       Using the Perceived Benefit Model of Language Shift
       M. Paul Lewis - Power and Solidarity as Metrics in Language
       Survey Data Analysis
       Sue Harris Russell - Towards Predicting and Planning for
       Ethnolinguistic Vitality: An APplication fo the Grid/Group
       Analysis
       Steve Graham - Social Network Analysis: More Toward an
       Application to Sociolinguistic Research and Language
       Development Assessment
       Carolyn P. Miller - Modifying Language Beliefs: A Role for
       Mother-Tongue Advocates?
       Mark E. Karan and Juerg Stalder - Assessing Motivations:
       Techniques for Researching the Motivations behind Language
       Choice.

       Copies of this and other publications of SIL International may
       be obtained from:

            International Academic Bookstore
            SIL International
            7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd.
            Dallas, TX 75236-5699

       Voice: 972-708-7404
       Fax: 972-708-7433
       Email: academic_books at sil.org
       Internet: http://www.sil.org

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