The multilingual Apple : languages in New York City / edited by Ofelia García, Joshua A. Fishman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fishman, Joshua A.

García, Ofelia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic minorities--New York (State)--New York.

Linguistic minorities.

Sociolinguistics--New York (State)--New York.

Sociolinguistics.

New York (N.Y.)--Languages.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed. / with a new foreword.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Front matter

I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE

New York's multilingualism: World languages and their role in a U. S. city / García, Ofelia

II. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY ARRIVALS: STILL ENCOUNTERED

Irish in nineteenth century New York / Nilsen, Kenneth E.

German in New York / Costello, John R.

Yiddish in New York / Kliger, Hannah / Peltz, Rakhmiel

III. THE LANGUAGES WITH VITALITY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

Italian in New York / Haller, Hermann W.

Greek in New York / Costantakos, Chrysie M. / Spiridakis, John N.

Spanish in New York / Zentella, Ana Celia

Hebrew in New York / Schiff, Alvin I.

IV. THE LANGUAGES WITH THE NEWEST SOUNDS AND OF NEWEST FACES

Chinese in New York / Pan, Shiwen

The languages of India in New York / Sridhar, Kamal K.

Haitian Creole in New York / Berotte Joseph, Carole M.

English Caribbean Creole in New York / Winer, Lise / Jack, Lona

V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE

Do ethnics have culture? And what's so special about New York anyway? / Fishman, Joshua A.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110885811

3110885816

OCLC:

843206900