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Title Discourses of endangerment : ideology and interest in the defence of languages / edited by Alexandre DuchĂȘne and Monica Heller.

Publication Info. London : Continuum, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 290 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Advances in sociolinguistics
Advances in sociolinguistics.
Note Originally published: 2007.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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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Subject Endangered languages.
Endangered languages.
Linguistic change.
Linguistic change.
Sociolinguistics -- Case studies.
Sociolinguistics.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Language policy.
Language policy.
Language purism.
Language purism.
Linguistic minorities.
Linguistic minorities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author DuchĂȘne, Alexandre.
Heller, Monica.
Other Form: Print version: Discourses of endangerment. London : Continuum, 2008 9781847063229 (OCoLC)212431911
ISBN 9781847063229 (electronic book)
1847063225 (electronic book)
9781441111173 (electronic book)
1441111174 (electronic book)
1283271494
9781283271493
0826487459
9780826487452