The multilingual Apple : languages in New York City / edited by Ofelia García, Joshua A. Fishman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 e.
Foreword -- I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE -- New York's multilingualism: World languages and their role in a U.S. city -- II. THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY ARRIVALS: STILL ENCOUNTERED -- Irish in nineteenth century New York -- German in New York -- Yiddish in New York -- III. THE LANGUAGES WITH VITALITY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT -- Italian in New York -- Greek in New York -- Spanish in New York -- Hebrew in New York -- IV. THE LANGUAGES WITH THE NEWEST SOUNDS AND OF NEWEST FACES -- Chinese in New York -- The languages of India in New York -- Haitian Creole in New York.
English Caribbean Creole in New York -- V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO THE MULTILINGUAL APPLE -- Do ethnics have culture? And what's so special about New York anyway? -- Contributors -- Index.