Discourses of Endangerment : Ideology and Interest in the Defence of Languages.

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Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers. Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity. The debates focus on defending institutionalized languages against...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duchene, Alexandre
Otros Autores: Heller, Monica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008.
Colección:Advances in sociolinguistics.
Temas:
Endangered languages.
Linguistic change.
Sociolinguistics > Case studies.
Langues menacées.
Changement linguistique.
Sociolinguistique > Études de cas.
Endangered languages
Linguistic change
Sociolinguistics
Case studies
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Sumario:Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers. Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity. The debates focus on defending institutionalized languages against multilingualism, or conversely defending minority languages against the incursion of larger ones, especially the spread of English. In both cases, languages are constructed as autonomous wholes, held to need defending against attack. This book challenges such a view of language, to argue that th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (301 pages)
ISBN:9781441111173
1441111174

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