The Earliest Stage of Language Planning : : "The First Congress" Phenomenon / / ed. by Joshua A. Fishman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Castell, Joan Martí i,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Friedman, Victor A.,; Glinert, Lewis,; Haarmann, Harald,; Holliday, Lloyd,; Hornberger, Nancy H.,; Hornjatkevyč, Andrij,; Janicki, Karol,; Jaworski, Adam,; Ka, Omar,; Landau, Jacob M.,; Mehrotra, Raja Ram,; Moeliono, Anton M.,; Omar, Asmah Haji,; Richards, Julia Becker,; Wexler, Paul,; Willemyns, Roland,; Wurm, S. A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fishman, Joshua A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 65
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

I-VIII -- Introduction: Exploring an overlooked sociolinguistic phenomenon (The First Congress for Language X) -- The First Language Congress for Afrikaans -- The Academic Conference on the Reform of Belorussian Orthography and Alphabet (Minsk 1926): A unique non-event? -- The First International Catalan Language Congress, Barcelona, 13–18 October, 1906 -- Integration vs. particularism: The undeclared issue at the first “Dutch Congress” in 1849 -- The First Congress for Hebrew, or When is a congress not a congress? -- The First Congress of Hindi -- The first efforts to promote and develop Indonesian -- The emergence of the Korean script as a symbol of Korean identity -- The first philological conference for the establishment of the Macedonian alphabet and the Macedonian literary language: Its precedents and consequences -- The First Congress for Malay -- The First Congress of Mayan Languages of Guatemala (1949) -- Language purism and propaganda: The First Congress for Polish -- The First Workshop on Quechua and Aymara Writing -- The First Congress for Tok Pisin in 1973 -- The First Turkish Language Congress -- The 1928 Ukrainian orthography -- Senegalese languages in education: The First Congress of Wolof -- The Tshernovits Conference revisited: The First World Conference for Yiddish, 85 years later -- The “First Congress” phenomenon: Arriving at some general conclusions -- Topical Index -- 352