Joshua Fishman
Joshua Aaron Fishman, o tanben popularament Shikl Fishman (en yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן ; Filadèlfia, 18 de julh de 1926 - Nòva York, 1 de març de 2015) foguèt un lingüista american. Especializat en sociologia del lengatge, planificacion lingüistica, educacion bilinga, e lenga e etnicitat, desvolopèt e popularizèt lo concèpte de diglossia elaborat inicialament pel lingüista Charles A. Ferguson.

Òbras 
 Yiddish in America: socio-linguistic description and analysis (1965)
 Language loyalty in the United States; the maintenance and perpetuation of non-English mother tongues by American ethnic and religious groups (1966)
 Hungarian language maintenance in the United States (1966)
 Language problems of developing nations (1968)
 Readings in the sociology of language (1968)
 Sociolinguistics: a brief introduction (1970)
 Bilingualism in the barrio (1971)
  Advances in the sociology of language (1971-2)
 Language in Sociocultural Change. Essays by Joshua A. Fishman. (1972)
 The sociology of language; an interdisciplinary social science approach to language in society (1972)
 Language and nationalism; two integrative essays (1973)
 Advances in language planning. (1974)
 Bilingual education: an international sociological perspective(1976)
 Advances in the creation and revision of writing systems (1977)
 Advances in the study of societal multilingualism (1978)
  Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters (1981)
 1982. The acquisition of biliteracy: a comparative ethnography of minority ethnolinguistic schools in New York City. New York, N.Y.: Yeshiva University, Ferkauf Graduate School
 1982. Bilingual education for Hispanic students in the United States. New York: Teachers College Press
 1983. Progress in language planning: international perspectives. Berlin & New York: Mouton.
 1985. The rise and fall of the ethnic revival: perspectives on language and ethnicity. Berlin & New York: Mouton
 1987. Ideology, Society and Language: The Odyssey of Nathan Birnbaum. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers
 1991. Bilingual education. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
 1991. Reversing language Shift: Theory and Practice of Assistance to Threatened Languages. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters. (ISBN 185359122X) (ISBN 978-1-85359-122-8)
 1991. Language and Ethnicity. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co
 1996. Post-Imperial English: The Status of English in Former British and American Colonies and Spheres of Influence. (ed.) Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin
 1997. In Praise of the Beloved Language; The Content of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter
 1997. The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York (with Ofelia Garcia). Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter
 Handbook of Language and Ethnicity (1999)
 Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? (2000)
 Do Not Leave Your Language Alone: The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy (2006)

Nòtas e referéncias

Lingüista american
Naissença en 1936
Decès en 2015