1. Joshua Fishman was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.
14 Facts About Joshua Fishman
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Joshua A Fishman was born and raised in Philadelphia.
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Joshua Fishman attended public schools while studying Yiddish at elementary and secondary levels.
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Joshua Fishman went on to get a PhD in social psychology from Columbia University in 1953.
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Joshua Fishman is the father of Monele Fishman, David Fishman and Avi Fishman.
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Joshua Fishman subsequently accepted a post as professor of psychology and sociology at Yeshiva University in New York, where he would serve as dean of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities as well as academic vice president.
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Joshua Fishman has held visiting appointments and fellowships at over a dozen institutions around the world, including the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Joshua Fishman is the founder and editor of the Contributions to the Sociology of Language book series by Mouton de Gruyter.
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Joshua Fishman devised the influential Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale, used for determining whether languages are endangered, in his book Reversing Language Shift.
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Joshua Fishman has often acted as an epistemological bridge between, and antidote for, parallel discourses.
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In 1991, Joshua Fishman was honored by two Festschriften, publications to celebrate his 65th birthday, each filled with articles by colleagues that followed his interests.
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In 1999, Joshua Fishman received the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters.
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On September 10,2006, Joshua Fishman was honored by a one-day symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, commemorating his 80th birthday.
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Joshua Fishman died in the Bronx, New York, on March 1,2015, at the age of 88.