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Sum: Fishman References on English-only

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1. IUTZI-MITCHELL ROY _, 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 <jdevriesccs.carleton.ca>
 Russ Bernard <UFRUSSnervm.nerdc.ufl.edu>
 Jonathan Dembling <J_DEMBLIHusky1.stmarys.ca>
 John David Duncan <jddefn.org>
 Jon Reyhner <Jon.Reyhnernau.edu>
 Barbara Pearson <BPEARSONumiami.ir.miami.edu>
 James Crawford <JWCRAWFORDmci.newscorp.com>
 Daniel Nettle <ucsadneucl.ac.uk>
 Ana Roca <ROCAAservax.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 <ffriaurora.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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Roy Iutzi-Mitchell, Asst. Professor
Anthropology, Education & Inupiat Studies
Ilisagvik College P.O. Box 749
Barrow, Alaska 99723 U.S.A.
ffriaurora.alaska.edu
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