Joshua Fishman

Joshua Aaron Fishman, ( jidd. שיקל פֿישמאַן Schikl Fischman, born July 18, 1926) is an American linguist who deals with sociology of language, language planning and bilingual education.

Life

Fishman grew up in Philadelphia, where he studied at a school in Arbeter ring Yiddish. From 1944 to 1948 he studied history and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He then studied Yiddish with Max Weinreich. In 1951 he was hired by the Jewish Education Committee of New York and married Gella Schweid. Two years later he completed his PhD in social psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York from. The title of the work was to Negative Stereotypes Concerning Americans among American -born Children Receiving Various Types of Minority -group Education.

He teach first social psychology at the City College of New York. In 1958 he became a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Work

Fishman wrote over 1000 journal articles and monographs, in addition, he is the editor of Contributions to the Sociology of Language.

• Linguist
• University teachers ( City College of New York)
• Americans
• Born in 1926
• Man