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The Spread of English : the sociology of English as an additional language / [edited by] Joshua A. Fishman, Robert L. Cooper, Andrew W. Conrad.

Title
The Spread of English : the sociology of English as an additional language / [edited by] Joshua A. Fishman, Robert L. Cooper, Andrew W. Conrad.
Publication
Rowley, Mass. : Newbury House Publishers, c1977.

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Additional Authors
  • Fishman, Joshua A.
  • Cooper, Robert L. (Robert Leon), 1931-2012
  • Conrad, Andrew W.
  • Cooper, Robert L. (Robert Leon), 1931-2012.
Description
xii, 336 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • English language > Foreign speakers
  • English language > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0883770873
LCCN
^^^77011068^
OCLC
  • 3203266
  • SCSB-12973738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library