Acceso usuarios
María José Azurmendi Ayerbe, Iñaki Martínez de Luna Pérez de Arriba
This issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Languageis devoted to Euskara(the Basque language) in order to take stock of its current social situation. It has the same aim as the chapter on Euskara(Azurmendi et al. 2001) included in the publication Can Threatened Languages be Saved? (Fishman 2001a). At that time we were writing from a perspective that depended more on the Reversing Language Shift (RLS) theoretical-empirical model propounded by Fishman (1991), now from a freer perspective. We are deeply grateful to Joshua A. Fishman for providing us with this new opportunity through this prestigious journal which he directs and edits, to show the recent evolution and current situation of Euskarato the fields of the sociology of language, of languages and of sociolinguistics in general. It is not the first time that we have to express our gratitude to him and we trust that it will not be the last.
