Table of Contents

Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia Garcia: Foreward
1: Joshua A. Fishman: Examining Contrarianism: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic-Identity Efforts
2: Neville Alexander: Afrikaans: Success or Failure?
3: Peter Unseth: Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization
4: Fatima Sadiqi: The Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco
5: Moja Ennaji: The Promotion of Moroccan Arabic: Successes and Failures
6: Mohamed Daoud: The Survival of French in Tunisian Identity
7: Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Hebrew Revivalists' Goals vis a vis the Emerging Israeli Language
8: Django Paris and Arnetha F. Ball: African American language in U.S. Education and Society: A Story of Success and Failure
9: Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth and Timothy John Ebsworth: Learning English in Puerto Rico: An Approach-Avoidance Conflict?
10: David F. Marshall: The Reforming of English Spelling
11: Serafín M. Coronel-Molina: Quechua Language Policy and Planning in Peru
12: Aurolyn Luykx: Paradoxes of Quechua Language Revitalization in Bolivia: Back and forth Along the Success-Failure Continuum
13: Robert B. Kaplan and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.: North Korea's Language Revision and Some Unforeseen Consequences
14: Shouhui Zhao and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.: Simplifying Chinese Characters: Not a Simple Matter
15: David Bradley: Problems of Orthography Development for the Yi in China
16: M. Obaidul Hamid: Planning for Failure: English and Language Policy and Planning in Bangladesh
17: Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew: The Emergence, Role, and Future of the Malay in Singapore
18: Mahdav M. Deshpande: Efforts to Vernacularize Sanskrit: Degree of Success and Failure
19: E. Annamalai: The Political Rise of Tamil in the Dravidian Movement in South India
20: Sipra Mukherjee: The Politics of Language and Dialect in Colonial India: The Case of Asamiya
21: Maryam Borjian and Habib Borjian: Plights of Persian in the Modernization Era
22: Jala Garibova: A Pan-Turkic Dream: Language Unification of Turks
23: Sabine Ehrhart and Fernand Fehlen: Luxembourgish: A Success Story? A Small National Language in a Multilingual Country
24: Anthony Rowley: Bavarian: Successful Dialect or Failed Language?
25: Michael Hornsby and Shaun Nolan: The Regional languages of Brittany
26: Maria-Jose Azurmendi and Iñaki Martinez de Luna: Success-Failure Continuum of Euskara in the Basque Country
27: Miquel Àngel Lledó: The Independent Standardization of Valencian: From Official Use to Underground Resistance
28: Joshua A. Fishman: The Failure of German Language Advocacy among Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews prior to and since the Holocaust
29: Marc L. Greenberg: The Illyrian Movement: A Croatian Vision of South Slavic Unity
30: Marián Sloboda: Belarusian
31: Anna Veronika Wendland: The Ukrainian-Ruthenian Success-Failure Continuum in Austrian Galicia
32: Erling Wande: From Tornedal Finnish to Meänkieli: A Tornedalian Success Story?
33: Tove Bull: Samnorsk
34: Giedrius Subacius: The Forgotten Model of a Separate Standard Lowland Lithuanian: Jurgis Pabreza (1771-1849)
35: Nancy C. Dorian: The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization
36: Ofelia García: Exploring the Variables in Successes and Failures of Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts
37: Joshua A. Fishman: Dubious Arithmetic, Hugging the Center, and Never say Die!

About the Author

Joshua Fishamn is Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus at Yeshiva University.

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

Reviews

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