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Joshua A. Fishman  

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  • Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to the field of bilingual education span more than half a century. His own personal and scholarly experience with bilingual education might have spurred Fishman's intellectual creativity as the founder of what has become the field of sociology of language, or Fishmanian sociolinguistics. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Fishman, Joshua A. (1926-)]

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