1967/04/01 by Joshua A. Fishman · 1,700 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Diglossia #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Multilingual Education and Policy #Neuroscience of multilingualism #Psychology #Second Language Learning and Teaching
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1967.tb00573.x
published in Journal of Social Issues 23(2), 29-38 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 1967/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
UNTIL THE 1950s THE psychological literature on bilingualism was so much more extensive than its sociological counterpart that workers in the former field have often failed to establish contact with those in the latter. Since the 1960s a very respectable sociological (or sociologically oriented) literature has developed dealing with bilingual societies. It is the purpose of this chapter to relate these two research traditions to each other by tracing the interaction between their two major constructs: bilingualism (on the part of psychologists) and diglossia (on the part of sociologists).