Joshua Fishman
American linguist
Joshua Aaron Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman;[1] July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015)[2] was an American linguist. He specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.
Fishman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in The Bronx, New York, aged 88.
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- ↑ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2012). "Introduction to the Joshua A. Fishman comprehensive bibliography", International Journal of the Sociology of Language (Int’l. J. Soc. Lang.) 213: 149-152.
- ↑ Joshua Fishman (1926-2015)
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