7.345, Sum: Fishman References on English-only

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Subject: 7.345, Sum: Fishman References on English-only
 
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Date:  Mon, 04 Mar 1996 14:14:44 -0900
From:  ffri at aurora.alaska.edu (IUTZI-MITCHELL ROY _)
Subject:  SUM: Fishman refs on English-only
 
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Date:  Mon, 04 Mar 1996 14:14:44 -0900
From:  ffri at aurora.alaska.edu (IUTZI-MITCHELL ROY _)
Subject:  SUM: Fishman refs on English-only
 
 
On 26 Jan 1996 I posted the following query:
 
> Subject: Seeking Fishman refs
> (cross-posted to Endangered-Languages-L and Linguist)
> I am seeking the references to what I believe are two articles by
Joshua
> Fishman (at least one of which had co-author[s]).  Both appeared ca.
> 1990-94, if I recall correctly.  One was Fishman's interpretation of
the
> social and political forces underlying the English-only movement in the
> U.S.A. in the late 1980s.  The other was a statistical analysis,
> comparing multilingualism with economic development, civil strife etc.,
> using nation-states as the units of analysis.  If you have the
references
> to these journal articles, please reply by private e-mail; I will post
> the citations to this list later.  Thank you.
 
My thanks to those who contributed references:
  John DeVries <jdevries at ccs.carleton.ca>
  Russ Bernard <UFRUSS at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
  Jonathan Dembling <J_DEMBLI at Husky1.stmarys.ca>
  John David Duncan <jdd at efn.org>
  Jon Reyhner <Jon.Reyhner at nau.edu>
  Barbara Pearson <BPEARSON at umiami.ir.miami.edu>
  James Crawford <JWCRAWFORD at mci.newscorp.com>
  Daniel Nettle <ucsadne at ucl.ac.uk>
  Ana Roca <ROCAA at servax.fiu.edu>
 
Following are (edited) versions of the references sent to me.
I cannot vouch for their veracity.  Thanks again for the help.
- roy--
Roy Iutzi-Mitchell <ffri at aurora.alaska.edu>
 
 
Fishman, Joshua A.
1988 "'English only': its ghosts, myths and dangers"
      _International Journal of the Sociology of Language_ 74, 125-140.
 
Joshua Fishman (1992). "The Displaced Anxieties of Anglo-Americans." In
James Crawford (Ed.). Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official
English Controversy (pp, 165-170). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(Abridged from "'English Only': Its Ghosts, Myths, and Dangers")
 
Fishman, Joshua A.  1991.  _Reversing Language Shift:  Theoretical and
Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languags.  Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters.
 
There was a festschrift for Fishman in 1993. the volume is "language
planning".  The article you're looking for might be in there.
 
Fishmans' book _Language & Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic
Perspective_ (1989, Multilingual Matters) contains two articles which
may be the ones you're looking for: "Cross-Polity Perspective on the
Importance of Linguistic Heterogeneity as a 'Contributory Factor' in
Civil Strife", and "Bias and anti-intellectualism: the frenzied
fiction of 'English Only'"
 
J.A. Fishman (1991). Interpolity perspective on the relationships
between linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross
national product.  _Applied Linguistics_, 1:5-18
 
Fishman's international comparisons on the social impact of linguistic
diversity is "Empirical Explorations of Two Popular Assumptions:
Inter-Polity Perspective on the Relationships between Linguistic
Heterogeneity, Civil Strife, and Per Capita Gross National Product,"
in _Learning in Two Languages: From Conflict to Consensus in the
Reorganization of Schools_, ed. Gary Imhoff (Transaction Publishers,
1990).
 
J. Fishman (1968) "Some contrasts between linguistically homogenous and
linguistically heterogenous polities." In J. Fishman, C. Ferguson, and J.
Das
Gupta, (eds.), _Language Problems of Developing Nations_, pp. 53-68.
New York:  John Wiley.       An important follow up is:
J. Pool (1972) "National development and language diversity"
In J. Fishman (ed.) _Advances in the Sociology of Language_,
vol.2, pp. 213-230.  The Hague:  Mouton.
 
An article by Fishman, dealing with economics, in:  Ana Roca and
John M. Lipski, Eds.  SPANISH IN THE UNITED STATES: LINGUISTIC
CONTACT AND DIVERSITY, pp. 9-19.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
 
 
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Anthropology, Education & Inupiat Studies
Ilisagvik College  P.O. Box 749
Barrow, Alaska 99723   U.S.A.
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