The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: "The First Congress" Phenomenon

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Joshua A. Fishman
Walter de Gruyter, May 3, 2011 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 359 pages

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Contents

Exploring an overlooked sociolinguistic phenomenon The First Congress for Language X
1
The First Language Congress for Afrikaans
11
A unique nonevent?
31
The First International Catalan Language Congress Barcelona 1318 October 1906
47
The undeclared issue at the first Dutch Congress in 1849
69
The First Congress for Hebrew or When is a congress not a congress?
85
The First Congress of Hindi
117
The first efforts to promote and develop Indonesian
129
The First Congress of Mayan Languages of Guatemala 1949
199
The First Congress for Polish
219
The First Workshop on Quechua and Aymara Writing
233
The First Congress for Tok Pisin in 1973
257
The First Turkish Language Congress
271
The 1928 Ukrainian orthography
293
The First Congress of Wolof
305
The First World Conference for Yiddish 85 years later
321

The emergence of the Korean script as a symbol of Korean identity
143
Its precedents and consequences
159
The First Congress for Malay
181
Arriving at some general conclusions
333
Topical Index
349
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