Joshua Aaron Fishman (en yidis: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman; Filadelfia, Pensilvania, 18 de julio de 1926 - Nueva York, 1 de marzo de 2015) sociolingüista estadounidense.
Se especializó en sociología del lenguaje, planificación lingüística, educación bilingüe, lengua y etnicidad.
1965. Yiddish in America: socio-linguistic description and analysis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton
1966. Language loyalty in the United States; the maintenance and perpetuation of non-English mother tongues by American ethnic and religious groups. The Hague: Mouton
1966. Hungarian language maintenance in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
1968. Language problems of developing nations. New York: Wiley
1968. Readings in the sociology of language. The Hague, Paris: Mouton
1970. Sociolinguistics: a brief introduction. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House
1971. Bilingualism in the barrio. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
1971-2. Advances in the sociology of language. The Hague: Mouton
1972. Language in Sociocultural Change. Essays by Joshua A. Fishman. Ed. Anwar S. Dil. Stanford: Stanford University Press
1972. The sociology of language; an interdisciplinary social science approach to language in society. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House
1973 (c 1972). Language and nationalism; two integrative essays. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House
1974. Advances in language planning. The Hague: Mouton
1976. Bilingual education: an international sociological perspective. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House
1977. Advances in the creation and revision of writing systems. The Hague: Mouton
1978. Advances in the study of societal multilingualism. The Hague: Mouton
1981. Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters. The Hague: Mouton. ISBN 90-279-7978-2 (in Yiddish and English)