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Discourses of endangerment : ideology and interest in the defence of languages /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum,
2008.
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| Colección: | Advances in sociolinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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 the d. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 290 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847063229 1847063225 9781441111173 1441111174 1283271494 9781283271493 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |