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Joshua Fishman

1926 - 2015

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Joshua Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman; July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joshua Fishman has received more than 134,662 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Joshua Fishman is the 79th most popular linguist (up from 80th in 2019), the 3,485th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,457th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Joshua Fishman ranks 79 out of 161. Before him are John Chadwick, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Jan Mukařovský, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Louis de Beaufront, and Carl Brockelmann. After him are Johannes Aavik, Holger Pedersen, Johannes Schmidt, Adolf Erman, Đuro Daničić, and Yuen Ren Chao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Joshua Fishman ranks 173. Before him are Jambyn Batmönkh, Claudio Villa, Konstantin Feoktistov, James Hillman, David C. H. Austin, and Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro. After him are Jimmy Savile, Genrich Altshuller, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Rehavam Ze'evi, Yitzhak Arad, and Jean Peters. Among people deceased in 2015, Joshua Fishman ranks 140. Before him are Phil Taylor, André Glucksmann, Jørgen Ingmann, Halldór Ásgrímsson, Franco Interlenghi, and Carl Djerassi. After him are Michael Graves, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Harald Nielsen, Ellsworth Kelly, Chris Squire, and Egon Bahr.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joshua Fishman ranks 3,485 out of 18,182. Before him are Steve Berry (1955), Frank Jarvis (1878), John Marshall (1755), Tito Jackson (1953), Claire Danes (1979), and George Raft (1901). After him are Erica Jong (1942), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (1958), Don Felder (1947), Herb Alpert (1935), and George Clinton (1941).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Joshua Fishman ranks 9. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), George Lakoff (1941), Joseph Greenberg (1915), William Labov (1927), and Noah Webster (1758). After him are Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Morris Swadesh (1909), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Robert Blust (1940), and Charles F. Hockett (1916).

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