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Interesting background chapters. Years Work in English Studies This volume provides an excellent starting point for those interested in attempting to understand the multiple paradoxes implicated in the relationships between ethnicity, language and identity. Fishman has done a superb job in bringing together perspectives deriving from the major social science disciplines and linking these with perspectives reflective of different regions and languages. Jim Cummins, Journal of Sociolinguistics 5/1 A provocative volume for both specialized and nonspecialized readers. Linguistics

...[the book] is a useful resource for readers who wish to gain an overview of some of the main issues of language and ethnicity in diverse regions and to understand the approach to these issues taken by scholars in disciplines other than their own....Most importantly,...the contributors go beyond essentialist views of ethnicity as a fixed attribute and the individual chapters enable readers to appreciate something of the complexity that underlies current debates about language and ethnicity. --Linguistics and Education

[the book] is a useful resource for readers who wish to gain an overview of some of the main issues of language and ethnicity in diverse regions and to understand the approach to these issues taken by scholars in disciplines other than their own...Most importantly,...the contributors go beyond essentialist views of ethnicity as a fixed attribute and the individual chapters enable readers to appreciate something of the complexity that underlies current debates about language and ethnicity. Linguistics and Education

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