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The Multilingual Apple

Languages in New York City

By: Joshua A. Fishman (Editor), Ofelia García (Editor)

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Paperback | 7 December 2001 | Edition Number 2

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388 Pages

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18 - 21

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13 - 16

Dimensions(cm)
23.0 x 15.5 x 1.91

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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).

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"This excellent collection of studies is even bigger than itself. It raises a number of questions yet unexplained and provides a model for examining similar issues elsewhere in the nation. [...] It is to be hoped that the Multilingual apple may serve as a model for similar, comparative studies."
Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr. in: WORD, Dezember 1999

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Foreword	p. ix
Introduction to the Multilingual Apple
New York's multilingualism: World languages and their role in a U.S. city	p. 3
The Language of Early Arrivals: Still Encountered
Irish in nineteenth century New York	p. 53
German in New York	p. 71
Yiddish in New York	p. 93
The Languages with Vitality in the Past and the Present
Italian in New York	p. 119
Greek in New York	p. 143
Spanish in New York	p. 167
Hebrew in New York	p. 203
The Languages with the Newest Sounds and of Newest Faces
Chinese in New York	p. 231
The languages of India in New York	p. 257
Haitian Creole in New York	p. 281
English Caribbean Creole in New York	p. 301
Concluding Observations to the Multilingual Apple
Do ethnics have culture? And what's so special about New York anyway?	p. 341
Contributors	p. 355
Index	p. 357
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