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Bernard Spolsky

Bernard Spolsky

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
13526
World Ranking
3510
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Bernard Spolsky was affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Their research spanned across several fields, primarily within the social sciences and arts and humanities. The main subfields of study included linguistics and language, language and linguistics, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and literature and literary theory.

Their academic work often focused on topics such as multilingual education and policy, linguistic variation and morphology, language, discourse, and communication strategies, as well as issues related to China's ethnic minorities and relations. Additional areas of study included second language learning and teaching, discourse analysis in language studies, and challenges faced by international students and expatriates.

Bernard Spolsky published several papers during their career. Notable recent works included:

  • Linguistic landscape, 2020, Linguistic Landscape An international journal
  • Do we need critical educational linguistics?, 2022, Educational Linguistics
  • Individual language advocates and managers, 2022, Language Policy
  • Qinsheng Zhou: Ethnic Minority Languages in China: Policy and Practice, 2021, Language Policy
  • Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective, edited by Kahn, Lily, 2021, Journal of Jewish Languages

The frequent publication venues for Bernard Spolsky's work included:

  • Language Policy
  • Linguistic Landscape An international journal
  • Educational Linguistics
  • Journal of Jewish Languages
  • Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

Spolsky also contributed book publications, notably with Edinburgh University Press, releasing two titles of Rethinking Language Policy in 2021, which accumulated citations reflecting engagement in the field.

Bernard Spolsky was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1971.

Best Publications

  • Conditions for Second Language Learning

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Family language policy – the critical domain

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Measured Words: The Development of Objective Language Testing

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Language Management: Frontmatter

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  • The Languages of Israel: Policy Ideology and Practice

    Bernard Spolsky;Elana Goldberg Shohamy

  • ATTITUDINAL ASPECTS OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

    Bernard Spolsky

  • The Languages of Jerusalem

    Bernard Spolsky;Robert Leon Cooper

  • The Cambridge handbook of language policy

    Bernard Spolsky

  • PROLEGOMENA TO A SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY OF PUBLIC SIGNAGE

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Conditions for Second Language Learning: Introduction to a General Theory

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Communicative Competence, Language Proficiency, and Beyond

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Towards a Theory of Language Policy

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Reassessing Maori regeneration

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Language Motivation Revisited.

    Bernard Spolsky

  • Concise encyclopedia of educational linguistics

    Bernard Spolsky;R. E. Asher

  • The limits of authenticity in language testi ng

    Bernard Spolsky

  • What Does it Mean to Know a Language, Or How Do You Get Someone to Perform His Competence?.

    Bernard Spolsky

  • 5. RELIGION AS A SITE OF LANGUAGE CONTACT

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  • Language policy in French colonies and after independence

    Bernard Spolsky

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy: What is language policy?

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  • Linguistic landscape: The semiotics of public signage

    Bernard Spolsky

  • The Languages of Israel: Policy, Ideology and Practice. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17.

    Bernard Spolsky;Elana Shohamy

  • Language Management: Language management in the workplace: managing business language

    Bernard Spolsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Chapelle
Carol A. Chapelle Iowa State University
Joshua A. Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman Yeshiva University
William Grabe
William Grabe Northern Arizona University
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University

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