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Author Fishman, Joshua A.

Title The Spread of English : the sociology of English as an additional language / [edited by] Joshua A. Fishman, Robert L. Cooper, Andrew W. Conrad
Published Ann Arbor, Michigan : UMI Books on Demand, [between 1900-1999]-[between 2000-2009]

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Description xii, 336 pages ; 23 cm
Series Books on demand
Contents Part I. International perspective on English -- English as a world language : the evidence / Andrew W. Conrad and Joshua A. Fishman -- English around the world / Joshua A. Fishman, Robert L. Cooper, Yehudit Rosenbaum -- The spread of English as a new perspective for the study of "language maintenance and language shift" / Joshua A. Fishman -- Part II. English in nation and neighborhood -- English in Israel : a sociolinguistic study / Elizabeth Nadel and Joshua A. Fishman -- The maintenance of English in Ramat Eshkol / Fern Seckbach and Robert L. Coooper -- English on Keren Kayemet street / Yehudit Rosenbaum [and others] -- Part III. The economic and technological power of English -- Language, technology and persuasion : three experimental studies / Robert L. Cooper [and others] -- Economic incentives for the learning of a language of wider communication : a case study / Robert L. Cooper and Fern Seckbach -- Part IV. The impact of English on local terminology, planned and unplanned -- The influence of English on formal terminology in Hebrew / Yaffa Allony-Fainberg -- Foreign loanwords in Hebrew newspapers / Miriam Ronen, Fern Seckbach, Robert L. Cooper -- Part V. Attitudes toward English -- A study of language attitudes / Robert L. Cooper and Joshua A. Fishman -- Language attitudes in Rhodesia / John E. Hofman -- Knowing, using and liking English as an additional language / Joshua A. Fishman -- Concluding sentiments -- English in the context of international societal bilingualism / Joshua A. Fishman
Analysis English language -- Social aspects
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
Notes Originally published: Rowley, Mass. : Newbury House Publishers, c1977
Published on demand
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Subject English language -- Social aspects.
English language -- Sociological aspects.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Author Conrad, Andrew W.
Cooper, Robert L. (Robert Leon), 1931-2012.
Fishman, Joshua A.
LC no. 77011068
ISBN 0883770873
9780883770870