The Multilingual Apple
  1. 387 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

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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Yes, you can access The Multilingual Apple by Ofelia García, Joshua A. Fishman, Ofelia García,Joshua A. Fishman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE
  3. New York's multilingualism: World languages and their role in a U. S. city
  4. II. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY ARRIVALS: STILL ENCOUNTERED
  5. Irish in nineteenth century New York
  6. German in New York
  7. Yiddish in New York
  8. III. THE LANGUAGES WITH VITALITY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
  9. Italian in New York
  10. Greek in New York
  11. Spanish in New York
  12. Hebrew in New York
  13. IV. THE LANGUAGES WITH THE NEWEST SOUNDS AND OF NEWEST FACES
  14. Chinese in New York
  15. The languages of India in New York
  16. Haitian Creole in New York
  17. English Caribbean Creole in New York
  18. V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE
  19. Do ethnics have culture? And what's so special about New York anyway?
  20. Contributors
  21. Index