Book: Languages in New York City (various heritage languages)

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MOUTON DE GRUYTER CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY
 
The Multilingual Apple
Languages in New York City
Ofelia García and Joshua A. Fishman (Editors)
 
Second edition
with a new introduction by O. García
2002. 23 x 15,5 cm. xiv, 373 pages.
Paperback.
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ISBN 3-11-017281-X
 
This book will be of special interest to the general reader concerned
with the issue of language in the United States, as well as the
language specialist and sociolinguist. It has been written to inform
those wishing to learn more about the role that languages other than
English have had, and continue to have, in the life of the most
important United States city, New York.  At the same time this volume
makes an important contribution to the scholarly literature on urban
multilingualism and the sociology of language. The book contains
chapters on languages of ethnolinguistic groups who arrived early in
New York and which have been somewhat silenced (Irish, German,
Yiddish), the languages of groups who made early contributions and
continue to be heard in the city (Italian, Greek, Spanish, Hebrew),
and languages which are acquiring an important voice in the city today
(Chinese, Indian languages, English creoles, Haitian Creole).
 
>>From the contents:
 
Foreword (O. Garcia and J.A. Fishman)
 
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE
 
New York's multilingualism: World Languages and their role in a U.S.
city (O. Garcia)
 
II. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY ARRIVALS: STILL ENCOUNTERED
 
Irish in nineteenth century New York (K.E. Nilsen)
 
German in New York (J. R. Costello)
 
Yiddish in New York (H. Kliger and R. Peltz)
 
III. THE LANGUAGES WITH VITALITY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
 
Italian in New York (H.H. Haller)
 
Greek in New York (C. M. Costantokos and J. N. Spiridakis)
 
Spanish in New York (A. C. Zentella)
 
Hebrew in New York (A. I. Schiff)
 
IV. THE LANGUAGES WITH THE NEWEST SOUNDS AND OF NEWEST FACES
 
Chinese in New York (S. Pan)
 
The Languages of India in New York (K. K. Sridhar)
 
Haitian Creole in New York  (C. M. Berotte Joseph)
 
English Caribbean Creole in New York  (L. Winer and L. Jack)
 
V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE
 
Do ethnics have a culture?
And what's so special about New York anyway? (J. A. Fishman)
 
Contributors
 
Index
 
 
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